Ruby application

[benjohn]

I'm after some general advice about creating a Ruby application that
will be installed on Unix systems (Red Hat and HPUX, and possibly
Windows later on). I was hoping for a document covering things like:

Dealing with a machine having more than one Ruby installed.

Where to put the application files so that people can get to them easil=
y.

How to get the application to find its library files.

These are things that I already need answers to, and I expect that there
are probably going to be other questions that I don't know yet. Really
I'm after a best practice guide that points out probable issues before I
stumble over them.

Thank you for any help,
Benjohn

 

[Farrel Lifson]

You might want to look at the Rubygems packaging format:

http://docs.rubygems.org

 

[Matthew Harris]

A lot of Ruby applications will come with a setup.rb that will install
the files into somewhere that is recognizable by Ruby's load path.

More info on setup.rb here:
http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/