From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-06-08T00:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails on a Mac, so strange (to me) behavior

On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Mark wrote:
> I have built Ruby from source, installed gems & rails on a MacBook
> pro.  I installed the source for a working Rails application in a
> directory /rails_apps.  I cd to the application directory under rails
> apps and in the terminal I enter:
>
> script/server
>
> Terminal responds:
> : No such file or directory
>
> sudo script/server provides the same response
> ls -la script/server returns:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 pogo  admin  98 Nov 13  2006 script/server
>
> I have all of 2 weeks experience on a Mac, which probably explains the
> basic problem.  Can someone advise?

Try:
ruby script/server

Then, if that works, look at the #! line at the top of the file (head  
-1 script/server)

Mine is:
$ head -1 script/server
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

If yours is something else, then add a line that says where to find  
your ruby.  (particularly if the first line is not a #! unless you  
just want to explicitly use "ruby script/whatever ..."

Also, your ruby is where:  which ruby
says it is based on your path.

-Rob

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