From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T06:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot in Ruby

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Edwin Fine wrote:

> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> On 2006-12-05, Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net> wrote:
>>
>>> How about a Ruby Quiz for the funniest way to shoot yourself in the
>>> foot with Ruby?

#!/bin/ruby -w

me = File.read( __FILE__)
open( __FILE__, 'w') do |f|
   f.syswrite( me.sub( /ruby -w/, 'sh'))
end

Although this works fairly well too...

#!/bin/ruby -w

me = File.read( __FILE__)
open( __FILE__, 'w') do |f|
   f.syswrite( me.sub( /-w/, 'sh'))
end



John Carter                             Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics                        Fax   : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch                Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand