# RubyScript2Exe 0.5.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 6, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632 "2006-08-06T23:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erikveen)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/1 "2006-08-06T23:05:26Z")

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I’ve just released RubyScript2Exe 0.5.1.

RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby application into a  
standalone, compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin)  
executable. You can look at it as a “compiler”. Not in the  
sense of a source-code-to-byte-code compiler, but as a  
“collector”, for it collects all necessary files to run your  
script on an other machine: the Ruby script, the Ruby  
interpreter and the Ruby runtime library (stripped down for  
this script). Anyway, the result is the same: a standalone  
executable (application.exe). And that’s what we want!

For more information and download, see:

[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/download.html](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/download.html)

gegroet,  
Erik V. - [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/)

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CHANGES

- Fixed a bug when using the big rubyscript2exe.rb (the RBA) as  
library.

- Fixed a bug in RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.appdir.

- Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.userdir.

- Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.rubyw=.

- Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.strip=.

- Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.appdir and RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.appdir(“bin”)  
to ENV[“PATH”].

- Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.appdir and RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.appdir(“lib”)  
to $:.

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**Author:** ![erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erikveen)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/2 "2006-08-07T00:53:39Z")

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On 8/6/06, Erik V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> executable (application.exe). And that’s what we want!

Does it make an application.app folder for the Mac?

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**Author:** ![erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erikveen)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/3 "2006-08-07T19:12:56Z")

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> > executable (application.exe). And that’s what we want!
> 
> Does it make an application.app folder for the Mac?

It creates an application\_darwin. What’s an application.app?

gegroet,  
Erik V. - [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/)

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**Author:** ![erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erikveen)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/4 "2006-08-07T19:24:56Z")

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On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Erik V. wrote:

> > > executable (application.exe). And that’s what we want!
> > 
> > Does it make an application.app folder for the Mac?
> 
> It creates an application\_darwin. What’s an application.app?

It’s a folder with with some metadata files for mac gui applications.

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**Author:** ![erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@erikveen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erikveen)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/5 "2006-08-07T19:27:58Z")

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Le 7 août 06 à 19:11, Erik V. a écrit :

> It creates an application\_darwin. What’s an application.app?

it’s un bundled app having this structure :

> lstree MacSOUPSwitcher.app  
> |-Contents  
> |—MacOS  
> |—Resources  
> |-----AS  
> |-----English.lproj  
> |-------MainMenu.nib  
> |-----SH  
> |-----classes  
> |-----help  
> |-------fr  
> |---------css  
> |---------img  
> |-----launchd

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-0-5-1/101632/6 "2006-08-07T19:31:00Z")

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> > > > executable (application.exe). And that’s what we want!
> > > 
> > > Does it make an application.app folder for the Mac?
> > 
> > It creates an application\_darwin. What’s an  
> > application.app?
> 
> It’s a folder with with some metadata files for mac gui  
> applications.

In that case, the answer is “no”… ;]

gegroet,  
Erik V. - [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/)