Michael Fellinger
1/26/2009 4:12:00 PM
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Rick Fiorentino
<rfiorentino@charter.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I submitted a similar request over on the rails forum, but feel this is
> probably the more appropriate place, sorry for any duplication.
>
> Is there an embedded version of ruby available? Or is there a way to
> determine the required libraries for a rails application to make a
> minimal footprint distribution of the ruby and rails libs etc? Bearing
> in mind low memory usage and disk space considerations.
>
> As a little background, we deploy on server class machines and are
> looking into thin clients and embedded possibilities.
>
> Finally, if I make my own minimal distribution I certainly do not want
> to violate any licensing etc...any concerns here?
>
> Any comments or guidance would be appreciated.
minimal footprint and rails?
just did a quick grep and rails depends on around 45 libraries from
stdlib and pretty much every byte of ruby core (which is why it's a
nice testcase for new ruby implementations), are you sure you don't
want to go for something more lightweight?
^ manveru