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Deploying / distributing a Ruby application

What is the best way to distribute a simple command-line Ruby application to clients without requiring them to manually install Ruby and the required Gems?

In my understanding, this task comes down to just a few lines of SH / BAT code that checks Ruby / Gems, and if not found, continues with the Ruby installation with RVM .

So these lines of code already exist or do I need to write something?

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I haven't been able to find a way to create a cross-platform Ruby platform.



I have created a RubyAnywhere script that tries to solve this problem.

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I have used this project for small scripts in the past, without any problem http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

It creates an EXE file from your ruby ​​script.



If you need something cross-platform, the BAT / sh variant is probably best. You can grab RVM, install RVM ruby, use the package for your gems and then run the script.

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The closest I found is (I believe) release: https://github.com/Spooner/releasy

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