RAA - rubyscript2exe/0.5.0

RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby application into a
standalone, compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin)
executable. You can look at it as a "compiler". Not in the
sense of a source-code-to-byte-code compiler, but as a
"collector", for it collects all necessary files to run your
script on an other machine: the Ruby script, the Ruby
interpreter and the Ruby runtime library (stripped down for
this script). Anyway, the result is the same: a standalone
executable (application.exe). And that's what we want!

Because of the gathering of files from your own Ruby
installation, RubyScript2Exe creates an executable for the
platform it's being run on. No cross compile.

And when I say Windows, I mean both Windows (RubyInstaller,
MinGW and MSWin32) and Cygwin. But the generated exe under
Cygwin is very, very big, because its exe's are very big
(static?) and it includes cygwin1.dll, so it can run on
machines without Cygwin.

There is one more advantage: Because there might be some
incompatibilities between the different Ruby versions, you have
to test your script with every single version. Unless you
distribute your version of Ruby with your script...

RubyScript2Exe can handle not only handle a script, but a
complete directory as well. Usually, an application is more
than just a program or a script. It consists of libraries,
documentation, help files, configuration files, images,
licenses, readmes, and so on. You can embed all of them in one
single executable.