# "Portable" Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 8, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407 "2007-04-08T16:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/1 "2007-04-08T16:24:29Z")
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](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. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/2 "2007-04-08T16:38:31Z")
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/](http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/3 "2007-04-09T00:36:35Z")
On Apr 8, 10:23 am, “Michael T. Richter” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Michael T. Richter [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) (GoogleTalk: > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) > In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will > know the man. (孔夫子) > > signature.asc > 1KDownload RubyScript2Exe might meet your needs: [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html) David > **[Ruby on Windows](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com)** > > On using the Ruby programming language on the Microsoft Windows platform ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/4 "2007-04-10T16:12:16Z")
On 4/9/07, barjunk [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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/ss/portable_ruby.htm) [http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/qt/portable\_rails.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. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/5 "2007-04-09T03:20:43Z")
On Apr 8, 6:23 am, “Michael T. Richter” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Michael T. Richter [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) (GoogleTalk: > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) > In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will > know the man. (孔夫子) > > signature.asc > 1KDownload Couldn’t you do something similar to InstantRails? I think it is windows only…but maybe it will give you ideas. Mike B. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Michael\_TSRichter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Michael_TSRichter)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/portable-ruby/91407/6 "2007-04-11T09:57:10Z")
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](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