Ruby Casket

Packaging system for Ruby similar to JAR in Java.

Installation

RubyGems

Install Casket in traditional way

$ gem install casket

GitHub

Install Cascet from GitHub repository

$ git clone git://github.com/placek/casket.git
$ cd casket
$ rake build
$ gem install ./pkg/cascet-*.gem

Getting started

Ruby project requirements

To make your application self-executive create rake task to initialize application process. The task should be bind to default task. For example:

require 'hello_world.rb'

task :launch_application do           # create task
  HelloWorld.run                      # initiate application
end

task :default => :launch_application  # bind task to default one

For more examples please check github.com/placek/casket/tree/master/examples/.

Creating deployment package

To create Casket package simply go to your application directory and type:

$ casket --build

Then you should get an package with extension *.casket.

Running Casket projects

Tu run Casket project type:

$ casket <path to casket package>

If you dont want to check dependences type:

$ casket --no-bundle <path to casket package>