From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-05-14T12:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: compare between languages

On 5/14/07, xymip <xymip@comcast.net> wrote:
> In the meantime what is the best way to create a program file and then
> run it via terminal?

Edit the file with your favourite text editor, save it with a .rb
extension, then run it from the prompt using ruby <filename> <args>.
The command line arguments are captured in ARGV. For example

~ $ cat >> greet.rb
name = ARGV[0]
puts "Hello #{name}"
~ $ ruby greet.rb Martin
Hello Martin
~ $

martin