Ruby Packer: distribute your Ruby code as a compiled binary

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  • ruby-packer

    Packing your Ruby application into a single executable.

  • ocra

    One-Click Ruby Application Builder

  • I've had more success with a similar tool, called ocra [1]

    [1] https://github.com/larsch/ocra

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  • traveling-ruby

    Discontinued Self-contained Ruby binaries that can run on any Linux distribution and any macOS machine. [Moved to: https://github.com/phusion/traveling-ruby] (by FooBarWidget)

  • I didn't see Traveling Ruby in the linked list. Not sure how active its development is, but it's had activity in the last year: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/traveling-ruby

  • MRuby

    Lightweight Ruby

  • It's more on the embedded end of the spectrum, but https://github.com/mruby/mruby is another option in compiling ruby code and c extensions down to a single binary.

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