[Rubycocoa-talk] Self-contained .app bundle?

[John P. <joh...@ni...>]

It looks like it's possible to create a completely self-contained .app 
bundle that contains Ruby on-board. These pages suggest that libruby 
and RubyCocoa could live in an app bundle's Contents/Frameworks 
directory:

* http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/changelog.html
* http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000042.php
* http://qin.laya.com/tech_coding_help/dylib_linking.html

Can folks on this list contribute toward a recipe for building the Ruby 
and RubyCocoa dylibs appropriately? I will collect responses on Ruby 
Garden at

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?BundleRubyExecutableInMacOSX

so we can all keep it updated and refer to it for FAQ's. That page has 
what I know so far. The rest of the message is what's currently on the 
wiki page:

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The libruby.X.X.X.dylib apparently needs to go in the 
Example.app/Contents/Frameworks/ directory. So I'm guessing we need to 
do:

  ./configure --libdir = @executable_path/../Frameworks ? /

But then what? Where does the libruby.X.X.X.dylib go at build time? And 
then do we just copy it straight into the bundle's Contents/Frameworks?

Also, how then to start a Ruby script? Do we embed the interpreter and 
use a C call to load our rb_main.rb, like described in ProgrammingRuby 
in <http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html#S6>?

RubyCocoa too

The 2003-07-25 entry in [[RubyCocoa's changelog]] says it supports 
living in an .app bundle like this. Could someone write down how to do 
this? It looks like it involves tweaking the project in Project Builder 
/ Xcode.

-- 
Ryan "John" Platte
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