"Portable" Ruby

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I’m wondering if it’s feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
“Portable App” (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it’s run on – no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I’d use it on.

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Both are quite easy to do.

Since it’s a portable app you probably want a windows distribution.

AFAIK the distribution from InstantRails would work as “portble” out of
the
box.

It would take some tweaking (mainly a bat file for the environment
variables) to get the OneClickRuby to become portable.

Have you heard of Ruby2Exe?

Aur S.

http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org/

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On Apr 8, 10:23 am, “Michael T. Richter” [email protected] wrote:

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RubyScript2Exe might meet your needs:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

David

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On 4/9/07, barjunk [email protected] wrote:

Couldn’t you do something similar to InstantRails? I think it is
windows only…but maybe it will give you ideas.

Well PortableApps is windows only anyway unfortunately.

Some guy described how to here. He used InstantRails or a variant of it.

http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/ss/portable_ruby.htm
http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/qt/portable_rails.htm

Been meaning to do this kind of thing myself. It could be very handy
for teaching Ruby/Rails. Y’know bring your educational install around
with
you and such.

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On Apr 8, 6:23 am, “Michael T. Richter” [email protected] wrote:

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Couldn’t you do something similar to InstantRails? I think it is
windows only…but maybe it will give you ideas.

Mike B.

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On Sunday 08 April 2007 14:23, Michael T. Richter wrote:

I’m wondering if it’s feasible at all to package a Ruby environment as a
“Portable App” (along the lines of http://www.portableapps.com). The
idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes
entirely from removable media leaving no footprint whatsoever on the
machine it’s run on – no registry entries, no configuration files, etc.

What I really want this for is a portable JunebugWiki that I can run
from my USB stick without worrying about whether or not (the latter
being far more likely!) Ruby is installed on the machines I’d use it on.
Google for:

ruby2exe
instantRails

also you can just copy full ruby interpreter to your usb stick, but if
you
want wiki instantrails is much faster/easier