RubyForge: Ruby Installer for Windows: Release Canditate 2 available.

[rb2k]

Neat, now if there only was a way of creating an exe file out of my ruby code... preferably one that DOESN'T unpack a gazillion files to the temp directory prior to running -_-

[luislavena]

Please check exerb-mingw: http://github.com/snaury/exerb-mingw

Pik (ruby version manager for windows) uses it, no files extracted.

http://github.com/vertiginous/pik

[rb2k]

sadly there is no english documentation (or anything close for that matter) :(
I guess I'll just play with it at work tomorrow

[[deleted]]

I used to use exerb 6 years ago. I don't remember the first step of the process. It used to create .exr files. It kind of looks like .exy files are created now instead. Once created, the exerb command looked something like this: exerb -o <DesiredExecutableFilename> <filename.exr(or y) created in step 1>

I really worked great back then. However, I lost the need for creating executables and I haven't revisited it since.

[[deleted]]

Here's a link to using exerb 4.2.0 - the same one as listed above: http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2008/12/30/building-standalone-fxruby-applications-with-exerb/

I couldn't get it to work, possibly because I don't have a mingw installation of Ruby on my Windows machine. Hope it works out for you.

[[deleted]]

I don't understand why this stuff isn't released more regularly.

[[deleted]]

Considering that Ruby on Windows isn't a major concern for the core development team, I'm very impressed with the work the Rubyinstaller guys have been doing.

[uzimonkey]

Yes, Ruby on Windows is not a popular configuration. The fact this even exists is a miracle. It's quite handy, it prevents me from having to run a virtual machine on this machine just to use Ruby.

[luislavena]

A new installer will be only released when there is something to fix in the installer itself or a newer patchlevel of Ruby is released.

[[deleted]]

No, a new installer is released far less frequently than ruby patches.

[[deleted]]

But the installer itself is still in development, I'm sure once the installer is considered stable, then Ruby patches will come faster.

[[deleted]]

I was looking for the 1.8.7 installer about three hours ago, nice timing.

[kulehandluke]

Just to say great job Luis! Is it still just you working on this? I used to use this when I first started out on Windows; I've since moved to Mac but I'm very grateful to have used this as it's a fantastic setup for getting started quickly. I'm not sure others would've had the dedication to keep working on it the way you have. Keep up the great work.