Ranorex Forum

After installing Ranorex 8, I want to use the new feature for "Portable Deployment", but I didn't find out how to use it.
Is there a help page about the new feature?

From Release Notes of Ranorex 8.0:
"Simplified test deployment: Ranorex tests can be generated as portable packages, so there is no Ranorex Runtime installation required."

Hi,

There is a new option in Ranorex configuration. Just enable it...

odklizec wrote:Hi,

There is a new option in Ranorex configuration. Just enable it...

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I hope it's ok if I pose the question here since it might arise for other users as well.
Does enabling this option mean that we need to adjust our .gitignore-settings?

We have for a while now excluded the bin and obj directories (as well as others). Are there any dependencies with regards to this option?

Hello andrei_t,

I think that this would not be practical, the runtime directory is quite large and contains files that are actually stored in the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ranorex 8.0\Bin\Runtime".

I would suggest that you keep ignoring the "bin/debug" folder and rather think about an after-build step in your CI system that copies over the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ranorex 8.0\Bin\Runtime" folder.

Regards,
McTurtle

Hi,

and how to set "copy runtime to output" on a release server where Ranorex Studio is installed but no licence activated?
We use Jenkins and MsBuild to build each Ranorex-solution and it looks like this setting will not be stored in the solution-files but for each Studio.

Regards,
Thomas.

Hi,

Just make sure the Ranorex settings are stored in Solution (as described here). New solutions created in 6.1 and above, should have it saved automatically. If your solution is older, you can add the settings file manually (as shown here). Hope this helps?

odklizec wrote:Hi,

Just make sure the Ranorex settings are stored in Solution (as described here). New solutions created in 6.1 and above, should have it saved automatically. If your solution is older, you can add the settings file manually (as shown here). Hope this helps?

Hi odklizec,

indeed you're right, again.
Most of our solutions were created with Ranorex 5 and adding the settings to the solution fixed our problems.
Thanks a lot, again.

Regards,
Th.

Is there possible to deploy only Ranorex spy to "spy" or may be "record" actions without full Ranorex installation?

Nope, that's not possible. OK, it may be possible to somehow extract required libs and spy exe, via trial&error procedure. However, Ranorex Spy requires full Ranorex license, so it makes no sense to even try to extract and install only Spy, if it would require full license anyway? Why would you like to do such a thing?