On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:07:17AM +0900, James Britt wrote: > Can one run Ruby itself from a CD or a flash drive? Not via Knoppix, > though that may be a solution, but what would one have to do to be able > to pop a CD into a drive, load source code from a flash drive, and start > coding? The only issues should be * setting the PATH * ensuring that ruby can load the libs/extensions. On win32, ruby just does a search relative to the path to the exec. itself, but this isn't possible in general on un*x, so you might end up having to set RUBYLIB manually... -- Hassle-free packages for Ruby? RPA is available from http://www.rubyarchive.org/