How to distribute a Ruby application with the required gems

Question

I've developed a Ruby application (a small game), and I would like to 'distribute' it to other people.

However, I am not sure what to do about the required gems. If I just send my application to someone who have ruby installed, but not the required gems, I assume it will blow up. Can I package the gems locally? If so, would it conflict if the other person has a different version of the gem?

So, what is the smart/proper/good way of doing this?

Answer 1

The best way would probably be to just package your game as a gem as well, that way rubygems will take care of installing the dependencies. Here's the documentation explaining how to create your own gems.

Answer 2

If you'd rather not package your game as a gem, you could investigate the Bundler, which will be integrated into Rails 3.