From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T09:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and ksh

ClassRubyExceptionHandline wrote:
> Hi All... I have just downloaded the ruby-1.8.5-i386-mswin32.zip file
> with the hope that I can use ruby under the Interix 2.2 ksh shell
> implementation.  So I created a directory at the C: root C//ksh_ruby
> and unzipped the install file there.   Here is a listing
>
> $ ls -ltr
> total 1775
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None   20531 Aug 26 01:16 ruby.exe
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None  856124 Aug 26 01:16 msvcrt-ruby18.dll
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None   20532 Aug 26 01:16 rubyw.exe
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None    1708 Aug 26 01:17 ri.bat
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None    1776 Aug 26 01:17 rdoc.bat
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None     545 Aug 26 01:17 irb.bat
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None     326 Aug 26 01:17 testrb.bat
> -rwx---rwx  1 Compaq_Owner  None    4191 Aug 26 01:17 erb.bat
>
> Being somewhat familiar with Ruby, I thought I could simple run irb.bat
> by ./irb.bat similar to the way it is done under the DOS Shell.
> Howerver, when I tried it I got the following error.
>
> $ ./irb.bat
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[1]: @echo: not found
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[20]: syntax error: `__FILE__' unexpected
>
> So... since I can't seem to locate any documentation on this
> implementation, I need some guidance.  Is there something I need to add
> to my .profile to make this work.  I'm on Interix 2.2  (MS hasn't
> released an SFU for Windows XP Home yet).

This may help?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/runwin32.mspx

Possibly, ksh doesn't understand the batch language. Mabye you could
port the batch file to a shell script? Does ruby.exe work in ksh?

Regards,
Jordan