[MacRuby-devel] Cannot get standalone distribution to work with 0.5 or Apr 29 nightly

[Brian Marick]

I'm trying to get a standalone distribution working (one with the MacRuby framework embedded in the app). I've followed the instructions in the tutorial
http://www.macruby.com/documentation/tutorial.html
and also looked at the discussion in ticket 281, macruby-devel at http://bit.ly/dkKyXT, and carlo.log http://bit.ly/5SdxCq

At this point, the app does nothing but pop up "hello world" (using Cocoa directly rather than via hotcocoa). It fails with this message in the console:

	no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)

ubygems.rb *is* present in the path that rb_main.rb sets, but the error happens before rb_main.rb is entered.

I've tried using install_name_tool in various ways, but it never changes anything.

Questions:

1. Is the LoadError caused by something else entirely?
2. Should I need to use install_name_tool with recent nightlies or is macruby_deploy all I should need?
3. Any ideas about how to make it work?

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