From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T01:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby under cygwin & windows paths

On 1/13/06, Thomas <sanobast-2005a@yahoo.de> wrote:
> > 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 think you can run ruby using something like
>
> bash -c "ruby '$(cygpath -u %1)' %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9"
>
> Maybe you could put this into some kind of ruby.bat. I don't know if
> cmd.exe provided this kind of substitution which would make things easier.

Thanks again for all the proposals, but the part with "$(cygpath -u
%1)" doesn't work:
ruby: No such file or derectory -- $(cygpath -u ) (Load Error)

No luck this time.

(The problem on the "bash" side, not on the "command-line" side I suppose.)

Mojca