# Distributing ruby with Rubyscript2exe - and a path problem?

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**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distributing-ruby-with-rubyscript2exe-and-a-path-problem/79980 "2006-12-20T19:27:01Z")\
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Dear all,  
I am trying to put together an executable file from  
a ruby script containing an external application (gnuplot),  
on machines that doesn’t have Ruby nor gnuplot installed,  
using the way this is described in  
\_[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/index.html\_](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/index.html_)  
([Distributing Ruby Applications - Theory and Practice of Building, Packing and Distributing Ruby Applications](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/index.html))  
\_[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html\_](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html_)  
([http://www.erikveen](http://www.erikveen)  
.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html)  
\_[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html\_](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html_)  
([http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html)) .

I have made a directory  
/temp5,  
put in it my application init.rb,  
which writes some data into a file, saves it, and then  
calls gnuplot via the system command to show a plot  
using the commands in that file.  
This works fine on the machine I am creating  
the executable on,  
but when I test my application on an external machine,  
where there is neither gnuplot nor Ruby installed, it just starts  
and ends without doing anything - no file is written,  
no gnuplot is started, no error message is given.  
What am I doing wrong ? Is there some problem  
configuring some paths? The executable file is quite  
large (~8MB), and it seems to contain what’s necessary  
from gnuplot, as far as I can tell (see below).  
Below is what I get from the eee-list and the tar-list commands  
on the machine without Ruby and Gnuplot installed.

$ ./temp5\_linux --eee-list

Thank you very much for your help.  
Best regards,  
Axel  
----------------------------------------- eee-list  
d bin  
f bin/ruby (627260)  
d lib  
f lib/rubyscript2exe.rb (1789)  
d lib/ev  
f lib/ev/ftools.rb (4268)  
f lib/ftools.rb (6318)  
f lib/rbconfig.rb (5703)  
f lib/matrix.rb (27785)  
f lib/e2mmap.rb (4134)  
f bootstrap.rb (1170)  
f empty.rb (0)  
d app  
f app/temp5.rb (34577893)  
i eee.info  
c PATH=%tempdir%/bin:$PATH ; export  
LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=%tempdir%/bin:$LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH ; chmod +x  
%tempdir%/bin/\* ; %tempdir%/bin/ruby -r  
%tempdir%/bootstrap.rb -T1 %tempdir%/empty.rb %tempdir%/app/temp5.rb