From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T01:38:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with accessing directory defined in ENV variables

On 12.08.2008 18:15, Thomas Luedeke wrote:

> Admittedly, I'm having a terrible time understanding what Ruby wants 
> with respect to parentheses, #{} constructs, and the like.  It's very 
> confusing.

Maybe then you should read through some introductory material.

> My scripts are a horrible mess because I can't get things to work 
> consistently, and almost every time I refer to a variable, a directory, 
> or a file, I have to write a mini-script just to figure out what it 
> wants.  It sucks.

You can use IRB for that.  And as I said: do not try to write Ruby 
programs like shell scripts.  These are two completely different pairs 
of shoes.

Kind regards

	robert