From: Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T02:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: system admin script

On Jul 19, 10:10 pm, Ott Mr <sixfourimp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> i am trying to find a good scripting language for Mac OS X. I was told
> ruby would be a good choice. Before i dedicate my time to learning it I
> have to find out a couple of things.
>
> Can you run ruby form the GUI? i.e double click it . I don't want users
> to have to go to the terminal.
>
> Here is an example of what i would like to do. We use a package builder
> to customize installs. The only part that it can't do is user related
> preferences and library files. Which means we(IT department) have to
> copy the files. It is easy to do and it only takes about 3mins. But it
> would be nice if i could just double click a script and have it take
> 5sec. Is this something I can do with ruby?
>
> I am more concerned with running it from a GUI. If I can't do that I
> might as well stick to shell scripts because I can call them from apple
> script which I can run form the GUI. Plus I already know shell
> scripting.

I'm not a MacOS user, so I don't know much about this, but does MacOS
X have something equivalent to Windows' batch files? In Windows, you
could make any ruby program double-click executable by making a file
called [program_name.bat] and giving it the line "ruby path
\program_name.rb"