James Britt
9/29/2007 2:33:00 PM
Sal Syed wrote:
> I want my RUby app to automatically be called when windows boots up ...
> what is the best way to do this?
Add a link to the program in the Start Up program group
or
add it to the registry (I forget the exact key, something along the
lines of localmachine/software/microsoft/windows/current_version/run).
In either case you'll need to be sure the calling script will correctly
load the Ruby interpreter. If your app is not getting called correctly
at boot time, try wrapping it in a .bat file:
e.g.
REM myapp.bat
c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe c:\path\to\your_app.rb
I am probably going to compile it to an
> exe... I would also like to know how to do this for Mac
Ruby code does not get compiled to exe. There are some apps that will
wrap Ruby code into self-extracting, self-executing files; see
rubyscript2exe, for example
--
James Britt
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, when asked about static typing
(and a tip of the hat to raganwald)