# Ocra

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra/187424>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra/187424 "2010-04-22T23:03:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bankai)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra/187424/1 "2010-04-22T23:03:23Z")

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Hi All,

Is it possible to package the sourcecode in to an .exe file with  
IronRuby?  
If not, will there be a tool in the near future for IronRuby to support  
this method?

With the MRI version I can use OCRA or Rubyscript2exe (obsolete in 1.9)  
It would be awesome if there where such a thing for IronRuby

Cheers,

iLias.

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**Author:** ![bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bankai)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra/187424/2 "2010-04-24T08:28:32Z")

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iLias, have you checked out rifraf’s IronRubyEmbeddedApps:

> **[GitHub - rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps: This repository shows how to create...](https://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps)**
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> This repository shows how to create 'standalone' .Net applications written in Ruby. - GitHub - rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps: This repository shows how to create 'standalone' .Net app...

[http://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps](http://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps)

This is a very interesting project, and might be exactly what you need.  
🙂

Excerpted from the readme: “You can package up Ruby applications as  
ordinary  
.Net executables without having to ship a  
collection of plain-text Ruby source files. No-one need ever know…”

Best Regards,  
Kevin R.

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**Author:** ![bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bankai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bankai)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra/187424/3 "2010-04-24T15:46:08Z")

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Hi Kevin,

This is pretty much what i was looking for! 🙂

Thanks man!!

Regards,

iLias.

Kevin R. wrote:

> iLias, have you checked out rifraf’s IronRubyEmbeddedApps:  
> [GitHub - rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps: This repository shows how to create 'standalone' .Net applications written in Ruby. · GitHub](http://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps)  
> [http://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps](http://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps)
> 
> This is a very interesting project, and might be exactly what you need.  
> 🙂
> 
> Excerpted from the readme: “You can package up Ruby applications as  
> ordinary  
> .Net executables without having to ship a  
> collection of plain-text Ruby source files. No-one need ever know…”
> 
> Best Regards,  
> Kevin R.