From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T09:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Command line arguments in windows

"Joe Seeley" <joiey.seeley@gmail.com> writes:

> If I execute my apps from a command line using this syntax
>
> my_app arg1 arg2 .. argx
>
> then ARGV is empty!
>
> .rb exists in my PATHEXT system variable so it should be treated the same as
> a .exe.  Anyone else encountered this?

This isn't what I see:

C:\Temp>type abu.rb
p ARGV

C:\Temp>abu what ever you want
["what", "ever", "you", "want"]

Now, in the registry, the default value for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rb is
"rbFile" and the default value for
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rbFile\Shell\open\command is:
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "%1" %*

I suspect that your registry entry is missing the %* bit.  Go open up
regedit, find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rb, find that default value (probably
rbFile, but if it isn't use that value where I say "rbFile"), then
find the default on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rbFile\Shell (probably "open"),
then look at the default on
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rbFile\Shell\open\command and see if that includes
the %* bit.  If it doesn't, add it.