From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T07:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: bash to ruby

Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I'm not a ruby developer just yet, but I've been reading a couple of
> in-depth references and I already like it... a lot.
> 
> Today I got, once again as usual, annoyed by having to get into cygwin
> *just* to run build-related bash scripts from within windows. But I must
> be developing some ruby cells in my blood already since I thought: that's
> it... I'm rewritting them in ruby!
> 
> So, is there any guideline on how to port bash scripts to ruby?
> 

You might find it useful to look at Ruby's un.rb library. It implements 
a lot of common *ix commands (cd, rm, cp, mkdir, etc.) using FileUtils. 
It might give you some ideas.


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