From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T21:31:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Bad interpreter

CT wrote:

>>If I try to run instiki by typing 'ruby instiki' it works just fine.
>>But if I ever try running it as ./instiki I get:
>>
>>: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> 
> I have the same problem with my ubuntu installation at home, googling
> leads me to info about trailing ^M characters at the end of the
> "shebang" line(the "#!/usr/bin/ruby" line at the top of the script).
> Haven't checked this, though. Try removing any such control characters
> at the end of the shebang line and see if it works.

I think this issue will be fixed in the next Ruby release when you do 
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w (Might also not occur in it when you have a space 
after the "ruby", I'm not sure here, but "-w" is a good idea anyway.)