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		sordina on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled b... Around a decade ago I used a script called ruby2exe and diving into that was a truly magical journey of discovery - finding an embedded Pascal compiler was... Interesting.

hkt on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

Did you ever find out what it was for?

sordina on Sept 22, 2021 | [–]

Yep! The script was essentially:

* Invoke ruby program * Find all in-memory dependencies * Statically link ruby and the discovered dependencies * Compile with an args interface with the Pascal compiler * Spit out exe

This was for windows only if I recall correctly.

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