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POHow to bundle a ruby package into an [Objective-C] cocoa application?
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copied!<p>I'm trying to figure out how I could bundle a package, written in Ruby (<a href="http://sass-lang.com/download.html" rel="noreferrer">Sass</a>) into a Cocoa application (Objective-C, not Ruby Cocoa) for me to execute (via NSTask is fine, unless there is an easy way to bridge ObjC<->Cocoa that I'm not aware of).</p> <p>The Sass package is something you have to install, using "gem install" or "rake install" -- doing so puts a <em>ton</em> of files in my ~/.gem directory. Since I want anybody who has installed my Cocoa-based application to be able to execute this tool from within my app, I don't want to have the user go through a process of installing anything additional, so I'm hoping to be able to embed everything I need in the Resources directory of my app package.</p> <p>However, not being that familiar with the internals and structure of Ruby <sub>(Sorry, I'm having trouble just keeping ObjC/Cocoa in my head!)</sub>, It's not clear to me just which of the 1,444 files that got installed in the ~/.gem directory <sub>(Yes, I counted)</sub> I need to embed in the application and what I might need to do to get the directory references, etc. working right.</p> <p>If anybody has any experience with embedding a ruby tool into a Cocoa application, I would really appreciate your input. I wasn't expecting this to be so hard, considering that ruby <em>is</em> installed on Mac OS X ... but apparently this package is (typically? atypically?) more than just a single script file....</p>

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