From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T02:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby under cygwin & windows paths

David Vallner wrote:

> Also, you might try yet another ugly hack. Put a file called "ruby.bat"
> somewhere that's on your PATH before the Cygwin bin directory. Then have
> that file call the Cygwin bash with a script that transforms the Windows
> path into a POSIX one (I'm almost sure Cygwin comes with a tool for that)
> and calls ruby that way. The disadvantage to this is that it' bound to
> break command line switches sooner or later. I might get back to this a
> while later today, these are replies in a hurry.

Thanks. I didn't think about creating another ruby.bat file. There's a
"cygpath" utility in cygwin, but I didn't figure out yet how to use it
to call another program an to tell him which paths to use.

I didn't write the scripts by myself. ConTeXt (a kind of TeX
extension/macro package) uses perl and ruby for different tasks, so
that ruby is called somewhere inbetween. I can't run the whole stuff
from bash since I don't have ConTeXt installed under cygwin, but
ruby.bat might help perhaps. It's pretty complicated situation (one
runs an exe which calls a ruby script which calls another perl script
which calls another ruby script, ...) I'll also try to find someone
who knows cygwin slightly better if everything else fails.

I didn't even notice that cygwin is (mis)used for ruby (most scripts
work properly) until I struggled against some problems.

Thanks a lot for help.

Mojca