Feb 11
When I want to distribute a Ruby script to a customer, sometimes its just easier to use something like Ocra to package up all the files needed into one nice .exe file that I can send over. Since I use Rake a lot, I wanted to figure out a way to automate the process. Here’s a simple example:
...
desc "List available Tasks"
task :default do
sh %{ rake -T }
end
desc "Make BI_Competition_Status_Report.exe file"
task :exe do
sh %{ cd lib && rake exe }
sh %{ move lib\\BI_Competition_Status_Report.exe .}
end
...
This is in your main project Rakefile. Since I’m using NetBeans, it places my Ruby files in a ./lib directory. The first sh command simply CD’s down to lib, and runs a second Rakefile located there:
desc "Make BI_Competition_Status_Report.exe file"
task :exe do
sh %{ ocra --windows --icon C:/Server12/Dev/Ruby/Exonets.ico BI_Competition_Status_Report.rb}
end
This is the actual Ocra command that packages up the Ruby app into a single .exe file. When this rake command ends, the last command in the previous Rakefile moves the completed .exe file up to the current directory.
