Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Sharing RubyCocoa Apps

[Craig W. <cwi...@ma...>]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Allison Newman wrote:

> Craig,
>
> I think you may have misunderstood me, or perhaps misunderstood what  
> a gem actually is.  Anyway, I'll try to clarify.  My current app  
> doesn't use gems, because I don't have need of any of the  
> functionality that gems give.  If I've understood you correctly, you  
> wish to use sqlite, and hence need a gem to do this.
>
> In the Ruby world, gems are libraries that are installed into a  
> specific folder on your computer, using the gem command line tool.   
> This folder is NOT inside your application - it is globally  
> accessible by all Ruby apps on your computer.  Unfortunately for  
> you, if you use the gem in your app, your app will no longer work on  
> another computer that does not have the gem installed.
>
> Fortunately for you, the gurus that created RubyCocoa have created a  
> tool called standaloneify.rb that Eloy keeps talking about.  This  
> tool goes your code, identifies all libraries that your app depends  
> on, and copies them into the Resources folder of a new, standalone,  
> version of your app.  It really is very simple to use - using  
> Terminal, simply cd to the folder containing your app, and run the  
> command:
>
> ruby standalonify.rb -d MyStandaloneProg.app MyBuiltinProg.app
>
> changing the names for your original app, and it's standalone  
> version, evidently.
>
> The link that Eloy gave you explains all of this pretty clearly (or  
> at least I personally find it very clear, your mileage may  
> vary :-) ).  I think it really is going to be the simplest solution  
> for you.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Alli
>


That helps alot! Thank you both for the explanation.

I have standalonify.rb exactly where Eloy point to but when I run the  
code above I get the following error:

ruby standalonify.rb -d ScriptWindow_.app ScriptWindow.app
ruby: No such file or directory -- standalonify.rb (LoadError)

I am in the directory where the app resides before running above code.

Craig