ruby-packer

You can already do this with these forks of ruby-packer and traveling-ruby: https://github.com/ericbeland/ruby-packer https://github.com/YOU54F/traveling-ruby ruby-packer is what I use to distribute a paid CLI, although on macOS only because my product is specifically for customers on macOS. The advantage of ruby-packer is that it is much simpler, but you need to have access to each OS where you want to distribute your executable. OTOH, with traveling-ruby, you can build executables for all OSes from the same machine.

Regarding one of the problems they cited--If anyone is interested in deploying a stand-alone ruby CLI executable using a modern Ruby (3.1), the fork here can do that, but you need to compile the rubyc for each platform first (not used the linked ones in the readme). https://github.com/ericbeland/ruby-packer Also, there was an issue with the most recent X-Code, so I had to actually downgrade my local X-Code to compile rubyc. I wonder if Shopify had known they could build the ruby CLI into stand-alone binaries (no Ruby install or Node needed) if they would have still gone the Node route? Not that I blame them for not knowing--I had to fork the motor-admin fork, and update a few things to get it working. The original ruby-packer only works with ancient Rubies.