# Tar2RubyScript 0.4.7

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tar2rubyscript-0-4-7/78592>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tar2rubyscript-0-4-7/78592 "2006-03-08T19:21:19Z")\
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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:** [March 8, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tar2rubyscript-0-4-7/78592/1 "2006-03-08T19:21:19Z")

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I just released Tar2RubyScript 0.4.7.

Tar2RubyScript transforms a directory tree, containing your  
application, into one single Ruby script, along with some code  
to handle this archive. This script can be distributed to our  
friends. When they’ve installed Ruby, they just have to double  
click on it and your application is up and running!

So, it’s a way of executing your application, not of installing  
it. You might think of it as the Ruby version of Java’s JAR…  
Let’s call it an RBA (Ruby Archive).

“It’s Ruby’s JAR…”

More information and download on:  
[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html)

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

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CHANGES:

- Fixed a bug concerning looping symlinks.

- Fixed a bug concerning Too many open files.

- Added support for hard links and symbolic links (not on  
Windows).