Windows Ruby

Deploying a Local Ruby
To be able to use Ruby as a BATCH replacement for e.g. a company, we need to be able to run Ruby on machines that do not necessarily have Ruby installed.

Usually, this can be achieved with the Ruby bare essentials: ruby.exe msvcrt-ruby*.dll

So to deploy a set of ruby scripts on a Windows machine that doesn't have Ruby installed, a directory structure like the following could be used: scripts/ruby.exe scripts/msvcrt-ruby*.dll scripts/some_ruby_class.rb <- some class used by other scripts scripts/popen4.rb          <- a rubygem scripts/my_script.rb       <- main script #1 scripts/my_other_script.rb <- main script #2 my_script.bat              <- launches scripts/my_script.rb my_other_script.bat         <- launches scripts/my_other_script.rb

The launcher BATCH files could have a few different flavors, depending on your requirements.

Logging launcher: @echo off set SCRIPT_NAME=my_script scripts\ruby -Iscripts scripts\%SCRIPT_NAME%.rb >%SCRIPT_NAME%.log 2>&1

Direct output launcher: @echo off set SCRIPT_NAME=my_other_script scripts\ruby -Iscripts scripts\%SCRIPT_NAME%.rb pause