From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-10-22T16:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Pipe shell output to ruby -e?

From: "x1" <caldridge@gmail.com>
> 
> Just wondering how you can pipe output to ruby -e?  I tried this but
> it doesnt work :-(
> 
> #### borked
> echo "hello" |ruby -e 'puts ARGV.to_s'

A couple possibilities:

  echo hello | ruby -e "puts gets"
  echo hello | ruby -e "puts ARGF.read"

  ruby -e 'puts ARGV.to_s' `echo hello`


Hope this helps,

Bill