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Hi. Ruby novice here. So far, I have had a great experience
programming Ruby where I have only been relying on the standard library.
Lately, I have been wanting to tie some of my tools into a nice GUI
using QT or Tk. I understand that running "ruby extconf.rb" will
dynamically generate a Makefile for me based on my OS, and that I run
that in order to compile and clean up my code. I also understand that
the source code that is provided would extend my Ruby API in order to
access lower level code that would enable me to access these C libraries
as objects in Ruby. What I fail to understand is how to make a project
that relies on such souce code easily deployable. For example, if I
were writing something that only relied on the Ruby standard library,
all I would do is tar up my project with a README saying "type: ruby
main.rb" and it would all work nicely. Now, I want to write something
that will compile code that extends the API if necessary, then clean
everything up and run my main.rb. How do I go about doing such a thing?
In Java, everything gets tied into a .jar file and when you compile it
goes from source->java bytecode. I see the transition from
Ruby->c->binary has a setback of having to do a little bit more work
than you would in Java. I could be wrong though. Any feedback would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
-Mr. Rubyruby
programming Ruby where I have only been relying on the standard library.
Lately, I have been wanting to tie some of my tools into a nice GUI
using QT or Tk. I understand that running "ruby extconf.rb" will
dynamically generate a Makefile for me based on my OS, and that I run
that in order to compile and clean up my code. I also understand that
the source code that is provided would extend my Ruby API in order to
access lower level code that would enable me to access these C libraries
as objects in Ruby. What I fail to understand is how to make a project
that relies on such souce code easily deployable. For example, if I
were writing something that only relied on the Ruby standard library,
all I would do is tar up my project with a README saying "type: ruby
main.rb" and it would all work nicely. Now, I want to write something
that will compile code that extends the API if necessary, then clean
everything up and run my main.rb. How do I go about doing such a thing?
In Java, everything gets tied into a .jar file and when you compile it
goes from source->java bytecode. I see the transition from
Ruby->c->binary has a setback of having to do a little bit more work
than you would in Java. I could be wrong though. Any feedback would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
-Mr. Rubyruby