From: Calamitas <calamitates@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T17:41:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic syntax check

On 08/11/2007, aemadrid@gmail.com <aemadrid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to check the Ruby syntax on a file or string of Ruby
> code besides doing something like `ruby -v xyz.rb`? Is there a gem
> that would help me here?

From the file sample/test.rb in the Ruby source code distribution:

  def valid_syntax?(code, fname)
    eval("BEGIN {return true}\n#{code}", nil, fname, 0)
  rescue Exception
    puts $!.message
    false
  end

Peter