From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T03:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing command line arguments to Ruby or JRuby script.

Swati Sharma wrote:
> Thanks Charlie. i made use of the ARGV array..... now, when i am passing 
> my parameters from java they are perfectly visible within the run method 
> of the thread. But they are not reaching my method in the ruby script 
> which is doing all the processing. I am making use of the JSR223 
> scripting engine only. The invokeFunction method is the one that passes 
> the arguments from java to ruby. One possible reason that comes to my 
> mind is the absence of class in my script. is it neccessary to include a 
> class in the ruby script?

ARGV is only set up using command-line parameters for the top-level 
"main" script you run. Any scripts that you invoke through BSF/JSR223 
will require a separate step to set up ARGV there too. That could be as 
simple as running some code to add entries to ARGV.

- Charlie