From: Jonathan Hudson <jh+ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T06:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: "ruby myscript.rb" Works, "./myscript.rb" Doesn't

Michael Gorsuch wrote:
> wtf?
> 
> There isn't any whitespace or blank lines before:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> is there?
> 
> On 3/9/06, Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What if you use the path straight to the ruby interpreter, and not
>>> /usr/bin/env?
>> Very interesting! When I change /usr/bin/env ruby to /usr/bin/ruby
>> (which is where the binary is), I get:
>>
>> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Your script has been on a Windows box or otherwise polluted with a \r
(Carriage return) after ruby?

The kernel can't find /usr/bin/ruby\r

-jonathan