New to Ruby on Rails? Spread the Word!: DIGG This | Add to del.icio.us
Rails411 is your one stop Ruby on Rails resource directory. Here you will find Ruby on Rails tutorials, Conference & Workshop Listings, Forums, and Hosting. We are the definitive guide for Ruby on Rails web applications, components, gems, scripts, and other related resources for Ruby on Rails. Accomplishing more with your Ruby on Rails website is easy with the help of these tested, pre-packaged, and ready-to-run resources.

Click any category to add your site for free.

Friday, July 4 2008

Rails411
Distributing Rails Applications

I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone application. Since I never built a Rails application myself, I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I decided to write this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we'll go through the following steps:

  1. Setup the environment
  2. Create the SQLite database
  3. Develop the Rails application
  4. Create the RBA (= Ruby archive) from the application with Tar2RubyScript
  5. Create the standalone executable with RubyScript2Exe

Average Visitor Rating: 0.00 (Out of 5)
Number of ratings: 0

Select your rating
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor