Will RubyMotion ever support creating command line executables?

[Eric Henderson]

In Xcode, you can create a OS X project that compiles to a single unix executable, instead of to a .app bundle.  I would really love to have this in RubyMotion, and I was wondering if there are any plans to ever support this.

Does anyone know if/when RM will support this?  Are there any alternatives that allow me to use Ruby to build a single, fully-packaged (including any used gems, but not necessarily the runtime library) OS X command-line executable?  It doesn't have to allow me to use objective-c classes as long as I can use existing MRI-compatible ruby gems.  If anyone knows how I can create a single, fully-packaged (minus the JRuby runtime/lib, but including all required files and gems) jar file with JRuby, that would probably serve the purposes I need.

I'm basically looking for something that allows me to have a single, command-line-compatible, pre-compiled file that includes all ruby code involved.

Thanks for any information anyone can provide.

Eric Henderson

[Eric Henderson]

I should mention that my goal with this is to reduce initialization speed since I use some gems that take more time to load than I really like.

Eric Henderson

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[Joffrey Jaffeux]

Did you see this : https://github.com/Watson1978/motion-doc ?

[Eric Henderson]

That looks to be an example for how to extend the motion command with a new sub-command, rather than how to create a stand-alone executable.

Eric Henderson

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[Colin T.A. Gray]

I think these could help:

https://github.com/MarkVillacampa/motion-osx-cli

http://chen.do/blog/2013/10/04/building-a-command-line-os-x-app-with-rubymotion/

Colin T.A. Gray

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