From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2005-05-30T08:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How to find ruby?

Mark Probert wrote:
> My scripts don't always have control of where Ruby might be installed (that is 
> the provenance of the destination organization's sysadmin).

> So, what do other people normally do when they have this kind of situation 
> when it comes to the shebang line?  I'd rather do it in some generic manner 
> rather than have a substitution script run at install time (though that is an 
> option).

I use

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

The "env" command finds the ruby command on your path.

Jim
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