Lich and Rubygems

[Renian]

Does anyone know if it is possible to use Rubygems with Lich? I want to use the win32-sound gem so that I don't have to force open Windows Media Player whenever I want it to play a sound.

I tried including an actual ruby script (.rb file) which includes the gem in it to play it from there, but that certainly didn't work.

[Shaelun]

Any pure Ruby script can be run by Lich, but if the gem includes a compiled binary file (.dll or .so file), it probably won't be compatible.

[Renian]

Hm. That's probably the problem then. I tried to have the lich script itself include the rubygem, but ended up having to use the SYSTEM command to open up a separate ruby script. It works--but it opens up a window to play the sound. That makes me sad.

[Shaelun]

If you used the one-click Ruby installer, you have two executables: ruby.exe and rubyw.exe -- ruby.exe will open a console window, rubyw.exe will not. So if your command is


system("ruby someScript.rb")

or something, change it to "rubyw" instead.

[Renian]

omg <3