Shipping a gem with jruby.jar

Ruby
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Is it possible to ship a gem with jruby.jar in a way that jruby
scripts can access the gem? I’d like to do so in a way that doesn’t
require installing either ruby or jruby.

BTW, googling variants of ruby, gem, and shipping produces useless
results.

Juan

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 13:13, Juan Z. wrote:

Is it possible to ship a gem with jruby.jar in a way that jruby
scripts can access the gem? I’d like to do so in a way that doesn’t
require installing either ruby or jruby.

You need Ruby to install a gem via RubyGems, so I don’t see how this
could possibly work.

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On 26 mars 09, at 17:08, Eric H. wrote:

On Mar 26, 2009, at 13:13, Juan Z. wrote:

Is it possible to ship a gem with jruby.jar in a way that jruby
scripts can access the gem? I’d like to do so in a way that
doesn’t require installing either ruby or jruby.

You need Ruby to install a gem via RubyGems, so I don’t see how
this could possibly work.

So shipping a Ruby application that uses a gem is impossible?

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On 26 mars 09, at 17:14, Juan Z. wrote:

So shipping a Ruby application that uses a gem is impossible?

I wonder if it’s possible to write a gem to jar converter.

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 14:14, Juan Z. wrote:

On 26 mars 09, at 17:08, Eric H. wrote:

On Mar 26, 2009, at 13:13, Juan Z. wrote:

Is it possible to ship a gem with jruby.jar in a way that jruby
scripts can access the gem? I’d like to do so in a way that
doesn’t require installing either ruby or jruby.

You need Ruby to install a gem via RubyGems, so I don’t see how
this could possibly work.

So shipping a Ruby application that uses a gem is impossible?

You said that you want the gem to install without ruby or jruby.
Without a ruby interpreter, a gem won’t install.

If you already have ruby or jruby, you can use a gem to ship an
application.

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Juan Z. [email protected]
wrote:

I wonder if it’s possible to write a gem to jar converter.

You may be interested in
JRuby 1.1.6: Gems-in-a-jar.
Feel free to hop over to the jruby lists if you want to continue the
discussion.

Cheers,
/Nick

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On 26 mars 09, at 17:23, Eric H. wrote:

So shipping a Ruby application that uses a gem is impossible?

You said that you want the gem to install without ruby or jruby.
Without a ruby interpreter, a gem won’t install.

If you already have ruby or jruby, you can use a gem to ship an
application.

Sorry for the confusion. I don’t want someone to have to separately
install Ruby or JRuby. Since JRuby comes in a jar that isn’t a
problem. I can run a script using just using jruby.jar. What I
don’t know is how to get such a script to be able to access a gem.

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On 26 mars 09, at 17:28, Nick S. wrote:

Cheers,
/Nick

Thanks, I will do that.
Juan