From: Stephen Kellett <snail@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T05:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem using ruby_options() - help!

>listening to STDIN. Thats fine. The problem is that when I do pass
>arguments Ruby just dies - no crash, nothing, just a silent exit.

I've got a solution.

I was originally making the following call which was dying.

        char    *rubyArgs[] =
        {
                "arg1",
                "arg2",
                "arg3",
        };

        ruby_options(sizeof(rubyArgs) / sizeof(rubyArgs[0]), rubyArgs);

I built the ruby source and stepped through ruby_options() - it did
various strange things like calling ruby_script(args[0]) - thus
overwriting the value I'd already set, then later is message about with
args[1] and called ruby_script() on that messed about value, finally it
tried to load a file with the value of args[1]. That action failed and
ruby bailed out with an internal load error. Hence my problem.

Whilst doing the above I noticed the call ruby_set_argv(). A few tests
later and I conclude that the correct way to pass arguments to a Ruby
program, so far as I can tell is using

        ruby_set_argv(count, args);

Hope that helps someone, most likely using Google Groups to get
themselves out of this hole. Thanks to those that replied trying to help
me.

Stephen
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