mruby-rake

a simple rake task to complie your ruby code into a executable binary

hacker news post to discuss it

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709279

modified version of code found here

https://gist.github.com/3850240/863acd980a0b29b0d86bd8cececb1d91b9b5bd83

thanks Matt Aimonetti https://github.com/mattetti

rake -T

rake clean        # clean
rake compile      # example
rake compilefile  # compile file usage:  rake compilefile file=filename.rb

rake compilefile file=hello.rb 
compiled
executing
You can now run by running ./example


./example

want to compile something else, first clean the files with "rake clean"

for running your ruby files,please copy them to this folder and compile them

pre-requisites

clone mruby in a repository and update the rakefile with the path

git clone git://github.com/mruby/mruby.git
cd mruby
pwd
make

read more about compiling mruby and using it here

https://github.com/mruby/mruby

https://speakerdeck.com/matt_aimonetti/mmmm-dot-mruby-everywhere-and-revisiting-ruby

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/04/25/getting-started-with-mruby/

http://merbist.com/2012/04/27/introduction-to-mruby/

Known Issues

limitations are related to mruby capabilites as it is a subset of ruby features you cannot require files in your ruby file, add all together in a single file there is no rubygems support

planned features

hope I can get the version to include C code and ruby together

what I dont know

how to pass parameters to the compiled ruby app, need to try it

License

it is not GPL for sure, you can assume MIT or Ruby license and that should be fine

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