From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T23:45:50+09:00
Subject: Re: determining ruby interpreter

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:01:02 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:109940]:
>>>> anything more reliable than this?
>>>
>>>>    ~ > ruby -rrbconfig -e'p
>>>> File.join(*Config::CONFIG.values_at("bindir","RUBY_INSTALL_NAME"))'
>>>>   "/usr/local/bin/ruby"
>>>
>>> Works on windows and cygwin, but you might have to add ".exe" to spawn
>>> an external process.
>>
>> really?  the install name doesn't include the extention then?
>
> It doesn't, but EXEEXT is not needed by system and spawn.


tricky.  what is spawn?!


does this do anything tricky on windows like it does on *nix:

   system "#{ cmd } 2>/dev/null"

??

-a
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