From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2008-11-25T14:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you run a command line script with arguments, without typing 'ruby' first?

Pit Capitain wrote:
> 2008/11/24 Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com>:
>   
>> Jayson,  hum.  I guess that makes sense.  Now that I'm thinking back I
>> never used command line options on my windows-ruby stuff, (...)
>>     
>
> FWIW, I never had problems calling Ruby scripts with command line
> args, and I just enter the script name without "ruby". Currently I'm
> using the OCI on Windows 2000...
>   
I think the steps should be something like:
1. Add Ruby Interpreter path to your path to make sure that you can run 
Ruby from anywhere
2. In Explorer, go to a folder that has a Ruby script ending with an 
extension of .rb
3. Press shift and right click on the .rb file there
4. In the context menu, it should give an option called 'Open with' - if 
that has the Ruby interpreter in it, click on it.  If that works, great!
5. Alternatively, click on 'Choose Program' - navigate to your ruby 
install and select ruby.exe
6. Click on 'Always use the selected program' - say OK, etc.
7. Go to a command prompt and try to run your ruby script without ruby 
in the name and with the parameters
   command>myscript.rb param1
It should work.

Note that the associations need to be set up in the GUI and the script 
must be run from the command line with the parameters.  It has worked 
like that for me for months.  Do post if there's a problem.

I think using Rubyscript2exe for this is a bit of a troublesome way - 
since you may want to change your script, etc. and having to repackage 
it all the time just to try something simple is a pain!

Cheers,
Mohit.
11/25/2008 | 1:18 PM.