Ruby Shoes packager including Shoes in the app

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Published on 2010-03-02T17:46:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 20:43 UTC
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I can't seem to get the Ruby Shoes packager to correctly create an exe with Shoes included. I'm using the Raisins release (0.r1134), with the pack.rb replaced from github. The exe's the packager makes are all 70-80K files (they obviously don't include shoes or ruby). These exe's will run on my XP machine that already has Shoes on it. but when I copy them to another laptop they start a "Shoes is downloading" dialog that does nothing and then goes away.

I need to make standalone Windows exe's, and my understanding was that the "Yes, I want Shoes included" option in the packager would do that. Did I misunderstand the intent? Is there a way to make this work? Hope so, because I love Shoes. As most women do. Hmm... maybe Shoes was _why's attempt at getting more women into programming as well as kids...but I digress.

The other threads I've found here imply this will work:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1390721/problem-in-ruby-shoes-packaging

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/363218/shoes-packager-problem

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