From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-07-23T13:23:38+09:00
Subject: Re: system admin script

On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:04:45 Phlip wrote:

>    Dir.chdir 'foo' do
>      Pathname.new('bar').unlink
>    end

And this is an example of when a shell script may be more appropriate.

Ruby is great as soon as you need just about any structure at all, but I 
wouldn't use it for what would be a one-liner in the shell, except to call 
that one-liner in the shell:

system 'cd foo; rm bar'

Or even:

rm 'foo/bar'

It would help if we knew more about what's needed by that script.