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by HelloWorldInWS 2826 days ago
> This tutorial does not cover Windows. This tutorial will not work on Windows; nor will this tutorial generate packages for Windows. The creation of packages for Windows is covered in tutorial 4.

Tutorial 1 tells you how to build a cross-platform Ruby release, doesn't tell you how to build it for one of the 3 major platforms until tutorial... not 2, not 3, but 4. They even tell you in Tutorial 4 that "there are caveats!" and the document almost begs you not to bother.

OSX and Linux users aren't the ones having trouble running Ruby programs. You're not traveling anywhere if you only support POSIX systems that either come pre-installed with Ruby or are a minor command away from having it. This seems entirely pointless to me.

2 comments

Things take development time. The idea is great. I’ve spent a lot of hours fighting rbenv lol
The best option I've found for windows is using OCRA https://github.com/larsch/ocra