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Coda Hale lives in Berkeley, CA, where he writes about Ruby on Rails, usability, web design and development, and the occasional bit about bicycles.

RubyInTray v0.1

Want to run Ruby On Rails scripts like Instiki on your Windows computer but don’t want to deal with floating command windows taking up space? Well, RubyInTray is here to help!

Screenshot of RubyInTray in action

RubyInTray provides a nice way to run Ruby scripts in the background without having to muck about with Windows services or actual Unix shells.

Check it out now!

Made with the comforting power of C# and .NET, and given to you in a cloud of GPL goodness.

2 Responses to “RubyInTray v0.1”

  1. why Says:

    Ohhh, nice. I’d really like to include this with a program I wrote. So glad you released the source. Bravo!

  2. Coda Says:

    Thanks!

    Mmm… you may want to wait on including that with anything you ship.

    It’ll stabilize over the next month or so, but it’s super raw now. It’s a dogfood app, so I’m pretty sure it won’t blow up, but still…