[extension]

If you use Ruby 1.9, I'm pretty sure there's a way to distribute it as YARV bytecode.

EDIT: I guess not http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/971 Anybody know why this was closed?

[chc]

Ko1's response implies that they don't yet feel ready to commit to a set bytecode for YARV and don't want to support this feature until it will have some measure of portability.