# Rubyscript2exe problem (yes another) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902 "2006-12-10T10:43:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/1 "2006-12-10T10:43:49Z")
hello! I know this forum is full of problems with rubyscript2exe, but i couldn’t find mine here. this is what happens: hello.rb: puts “hello” end of hello.rb > > rubyscript2exe hello.rb > > Tracing hello … > > hello > > Gathering files… > > Copying files… > > Stripping… > > Creating hello\_linux … > > > sh hello\_linux > > hello\_linux: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected > > rubyscript2exe hello.rb --rubyscript2exe-verbose > > Tracing hello … > > hello > > Gathering files… > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/rbconfig.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/rubygems\_version.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rbconfig/datadir.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source\_index.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/user\_interaction.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/forwardable.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/digest/sha2.so . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/digest.so . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/parsedate.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/security.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_openssl.rb . > > Found /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb . > > Found /tmp/tar2rubyscript.d.28261.1/rubyscript2exe/rubyscript2exe.rb . > > Found /tmp/tar2rubyscript.d.28261.1/rubyscript2exe/ev/ftools.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb . > > Found /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/etc.so . > > Not all required files are pure Ruby. > > Copying files… > > Copying /usr/bin/ruby … > > Copying /usr/lib/libruby1.8.so.1.8 … > > Copying /home/alle/ballerr/hello.rb … > > Copying /usr/lib/libruby1.8.so.1.8 … > > Stripping… > > Creating hello\_linux … I’m using ubuntu 6.10 What can i do? Thanks for answers ---
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/2 "2006-12-10T13:00:59Z")
Anselm (anonymous) wrote: > Creating hello\_linux … > > > > sh hello\_linux > > > hello\_linux: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected Rubyscript2exe doesn’t produce a shell script, so don’t run it with sh. Just do ./hello\_linux in whatever terminal/shell etc you happen to be in. hth alex ---
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/3 "2006-12-10T16:45:22Z")
Anselm (anonymous) wrote: > I know this forum is full of problems with rubyscript2exe… This doesn’t really address your problem (Alex has already done that), but I’d like to state for the record that I have had great success with rubyscript2exe (on Windows). I think Erik V. has done a great job with it, and the couple ‘problems’ that I encountered were due to my failure to read the documentation. Mully ---
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/4 "2006-12-10T17:31:15Z")
Of course this is a really great script, no question. Thanks, I thought you can run any executable on linux with sh. But now,when i run ./hello\_linux i get: /tmp/eee.main\_linux.2/bin/ruby: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 040777 /tmp/eee.main\_linux.2/bin/ruby: loading from unsafe file /tmp/eee.main\_linux.2/bootstrap.rb (SecurityError) ---
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/5 "2006-12-10T17:34:07Z")
Oh, is it possible, that my /tmp direcctory has the wrong rights? I had a problem some day with it and to fix it i changed the rights to world-writable. what rights should i use then? thanks for your answers anselm ---
**Author:** ![anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anselmthecrack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anselmthecrack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyscript2exe-problem-yes-another/78902/6 "2006-12-10T17:59:13Z")
works now. tmp rights are rwxrwxrwt thanks