Creating desktop application in visual ruby

Ruby
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Hi,

I am creating an application using visualruby. I want to make it as .exe
i.e i want to use it as a desktop application so that i can use it
independently. I am using windows.

Could anyone please guide me in this.

Thanks in advance.

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There are many options. Personally I use a combination of TCL/Tk and the
OCRA gem in combination with Inno.

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Thanks alot Joel for replying. Could you please suggest me any tutorials
or documentation to achieve it.

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Thank you joel, thanks for spending your time. It will be very useful
for me.

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Well, you’ll want to try out a few different tools and work out the best
one for you, but here’s something to get your started:

GUI: TkDocs Tutorial

EXE Builder: GitHub - larsch/ocra: One-Click Ruby Application Builder

Shiny-looking windows installer: Inno Setup

I should note that when combining OCRA with Tk, you need to do something
a bit special with the build instruction. The trick is to add all the Tk
directory explicitly. The command looks something like this:

ocra “My Script.rbw” C:\Ruby193\lib\tcltk\ –no-autoload --add-all-core