From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-01-05T04:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommended command line options for new rubyists

Hi --

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John Maclean wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> There are loooads of ruby docs out there. There are also some good
> reference guides under /usr/share/doc/ruby-1.8.3,
> /usr/share/doc/ruby-docs-1.8.3 and /usr/share/doc/ruby-libs-1.8.3.
> What would the more experienced of you recommend for command line
> options? So far I've been using
> ruby -c foo.rb
> ruby -W foo.rb
> as they are the simplest :)  I've not really used irb that much as I
> haven't seen any advantage in using it.

The ones I use the most are:

   ruby -cw
   ruby -v[e]
   ruby -e
   ruby -p[i.bak][ -e]
   ruby -n[i.bak][ -e]


David

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