From: kamphausen@... (SKa)
Date: 2001-12-05T01:03:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27454] Re: Programname in (un*x) top

mark@wutka.com wrote in message news:<IsPO7.70773$8n4.4039369@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com>...
> This may not be quite what you're looking for, but if you include the
> line:
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> (or whatever the path is to ruby on your system) as the first line in
> your script, and give your script execute permission, then you can run
> the script by its name instead of "ruby scriptname" and you will see the
> script name in "top".
>    Mark

OK, and since the shebang is interpreted by the kernel the scriptname
and not the name of the interpreter is taken.
Currently I'm using the !#/usr/bin/env ruby approach because I
installed ruby locally as a user (not root) and thought that would be
the 'cleaner' way. Since ruby has not (yet) achieved the
super-standard-status perl already has (and that enables perl coders
to happily use #!/usr/bin/perl -w) I'd like to ask you what shebang
you use (as most of you probably are far more experienced ruby coders
than me)
Kind of reminds me of a thread at the perlmonks.org where I asked for
a portable shebang (at http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=118460 )

Anyway: Thank you all! :)
Stefan