I know there is ocra oneclick ruby application builder for windows, but what about for mac os x. Sep 11, 2017 ruby jon and melrose apples are ready. Macruby is a discontinued implementation of the ruby language that ran on the objectivec runtime and corefoundation framework under development by apple inc. This spills out a ton of useful information about the rvm config. It will take some time to download and compile the mri sources on your computer, so be patient. Prior to that, matt worked with startups, fortune 100 companies and traditional companies, where he had the opportunity to be involved with really captivating projects in different domain spaces from biotech to comics without forgetting advertising, social networks elearning and more.
The installer executables are now signed with a microsoft trusted certificate of open source developer lars kanis. In this section you will create two simple ruby apps. If you require users to install ruby or to use rubygems. Problem is, my scripts are grabbing test data from excel files. I came across the ocra gem that allows you to easily generate a windows executable from a ruby script. We will be setting up a ruby on rails development environment on mac os x 10.
Discover how to set up rails, and program in ruby on your apple mac. Help polish the rough edges of the latest ruby issue tracking. Talk about ruby with programmers from all around the world user groups. Through this handson tutorial, youll learn all about the cocoa framework for programming on mac os x. With the help of the ocra gem building a windows executable was. Osx and linux users arent the ones having trouble running ruby programs. Ocra embeds everything needed to run a ruby script into a single executable file. The best option ive found for windows is using ocra.
It lets you put a full ruby mri install in a portable location. After developing this application on mac os, the next step was using ocra to create a windows executable. Deploying rubytk applications as windows 7 executables gnip. I say all of this with a catch scenario is everything my scenario when i purchased my macbook was doing local ruby development and deploying to amazon ec2 linux instances. Packaging a ruby script as an windows exe using ocra watirmelon. Become a contributor and improve the site yourself is made possible through a partnership with the greater ruby community. Join the authors journey as this experienced ruby programmer delves into the cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same problems that youll face. With the help of the ocra gem building a windows executable was relatively straightforward. One of them will perform basic insert, update, delete, and select, while the second one will make use of ruby on rails, one of the most popular ruby frameworks to execute the same operations. Ruby developers use gemfiles all the time, and most of us know how to do the basics. Bitnami ruby stack installers bitnami native installers automate the setup of a bitnami application stack on windows, mac os and linux. Sep 11, 2017 sep 8, 2017 opening 3 out of 7 rows of jonagold.
Installing ruby and gems with native extensions on os x. To create our executable, we are going to use the ocra gem. It was quite straightforward to get it working, you simply install the gem on windows and run the ocra command with the name of your ruby script. Ocra oneclick ruby application builds windows executables from ruby. Participate in a friendly and growing community mailing lists. This time when setting a new system up i took note of all the steps.
I have a dozen of selenium webdriver scripts written in ruby and i have used both rubyscript2exe and ocra gems in an attempt to end up with a bundled executable but to no avail. With that said, you can get a good mac for 12 that price just make sure it has solid state drives and plenty of memory minimum of 8gb, but i would go with 16gb. Now we have everything needed to install our own version of ruby using rvm. The gem manager will start the download of ocra and the gem package, at the end of the installation, should be able as an environment variable in the command prompt. Distributing ruby apps to nonrubyprogrammer end users on windows, linux and os x is problematic. I recently wrote a watirwebdriver ruby script that i needed to be able distribute to. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Which versions of mac os x have ruby installed by default. All the steps were tested on the latest mac os x 10. Deploying rubytk applications as windows 7 executables. This is a book for the ruby programmer whos never written a mac app before. We will be setting up a ruby on rails development environment on macos 10. Ruby on rails is a great language, and framework, for creating highly interactive websites.
So, before we get into strategies for dealing with downloads. Additionally, actually validating the content of a file is not trivial, especially for something like a pdf. Most of the time, this is the result of apples xcode not being installed on your system, or, if. Ruby is dynamic and context specific which makes what ides do ve. I can verify from machines in my own home that lion 10. At the time of this writing, the latest ruby version is 2. It is the goal of macruby to enable the creation of fullfledged mac os x applications which do not sacrifice performance in order to enjoy the benefits of using ruby. The most of the webpages on the internet do not offer a web api, and you need one. I started to prototype with ruby on mac os since i am on that os most of the. Sep 8, 2017 sep 4, 2017 loads of gala, ruby mac and smoothies apples.
Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. To download ocra, execute the following command in your command prompt cmd. Matt aimonetti is a senior engineer at sony playstation in san diego, ca where he works on video games. The executable is a selfextracting, selfrunning executable that contains the ruby interpreter, your source code and any additionally needed ruby libraries or dll. It supports both aheadoftime and justintime compilation. Step 4 download the latest version of xcode from my experiences, the biggest gotcha is when you try to install a new version of ruby with rvm, and youre met with a handful of confusing errors. In this post i want to dive deep into everything we can do with a gemfile. Packaging a ruby script as an windows exe using ocra. This packages the ruby interpreter and all dependencies into an executable file.
Each installer includes all of the software necessary to run out of the box the stack. Homepage documentation download badge subscribe rss report abuse reverse dependencies status uptime code. Alternatively you can download the gem at either gemsocra or. In the case of the machine i was working on, there were a variety of things missing for rvm to successfully install ruby and compile gems. Currently i use vs code with ruby and rails syntax highlighting packages. All users on any version of sierra should have at least this version of ruby available. So im going to take some heat for this, but i think its because the ruby community is very hive mind right now. A gemfile is a file we create which is used for describing gem dependencies for ruby programs. Here you can get the latest ruby distributions in your favorite flavor. The first step was developing an application to download files produced by. Compared to windows, ruby and python are prebuilt for mac os x, so the easiest way might be using cocoa with ruby. The executable is a selfextracting, selfrunning executable that contains the ruby interpreter, your source code and any.
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