Problem in Ruby Shoes packaging?

Question

The (Ruby Shoes) packaging solution from Hacketyhack.net doesnt work. Can anyone point me to an alternative?

Answer 1

There's a small tutorial in this Juixe Techknow blog post. It provides a good introduction to Ruby Shoes.

Answer 2

There is a shoes/shoes github project that hosts the latest binaries. However, as of (Sept 10, 2009) packaging requires a few patches that remove the dependencies on _why's no longer existent server.

I was able to find pack.rb in the Shoes application folder and replace it with this version of pack.rb After that, my packager was able to package basic applications.