From: Henning Bekel <h.bekel@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T01:57:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a Method

Rong wrote:

> If I have a file that contains a method that takes one parameter. and
> I want to call the method from the command line, how do you do that?
> I know how to run a script from the command line but not how to call a
> method.

Is this what you mean?

henning@box:~$ cat test.rb 
def bar(p=ARGV[0])
  puts "bar called with parameter '#{p}'"
end
henning@box:~$ ruby -rtest -e 'bar' Hello
bar called with parameter 'Hello'