From: Chris Bennetts <benetsc2000@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T09:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Bad interpreter

Florian Gross wrote:

> 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.)

It's not a Ruby problem at all. It's a kernel problem. The trailing ^M 
on the #! line is causing the part of the kernel's exec() routines that 
dispatches executable shell scripts to become confused.

The only solution (apart from propogating a kernel patch) is to remove 
the trailing ^M (carriage return) from the #! line.

--Chris