From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T22:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Bad interpreter

Chris Bennetts wrote:

>> I know what's happening. This can be handled by Ruby in most cases. 
>> (The kernel just passes along the trailing \r to Ruby's ARGV.) That's 
>> why I suggested adding the -w flag. (So that the Kernel would not try 
>> to run the script with an executable called "ruby\r")
> 
> That solves the "bad interpreter" problem nicely, but leaves ruby with a 
> "-w\r" argument to deal with. As you suggested earlier, if a future 
> version of Ruby handled stray carriage returns in its arguments, then 
> the problem would be resolved.

Nobu has done a patch for exactly that when I requested this on 
ruby-core. So all this is indeed going to be quite a bit less 
problematic in the future. (I was bitten by this behavior by myself and 
while it's not Ruby's fault it can still try to help.)