"no camping required" deployment?

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

On 2/11/07, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb at nasa.gov> wrote:
> So, I'm thinking either a stand-alone executable (via
> RubyScript2Exe?) or a set of static HTML pages they could
> load locally?

I've used both RubyScript2Exe and Exerb in the past, and actually had
quite-good results. It's been a while since I had to support Windows
deployment, but if I recall correctly, RubyScript2Exe offered somewhat
simpler packaging, while Exerb allowed for much smaller .exe files,
since you could use a compressor like UPX on the "core" image files it
used to shrink them considerably.

(Again, it's been at least two years since I really had to think about
any of this, though, so I'd check out both projects and see where
they've gone in the meantime.)

RS2E does have the additional advantage of being cross-platform, so if
you anticipate having any need to support Linux or Mac OS users, it
would be the obvious choice.

Good luck,

Lennon