From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2008-11-28T11:26:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Shebang! line not recognized in OS X Leopard??

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Johnnie Lieske
<generic@frankenstein.com> wrote:
> Tim Hunter wrote:
>  > You should use the actual path to ruby on your computer. Also, make
> sure
>> your script has its executable bit set:
>>
>> chmod +x matz.rb
>>
>> And finally, OS X only looks for executables your $PATH, which normally
>> doesn't include your current directory. To execute a script in the
>> current directory, do this:
>>
>> ./matz.rb
>
> Thanks Tim.
>
> None of that worked.
>
> Here is the script that I have:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> puts "Hello, Matz!"
>
>
>
>>>>here is info on the ruby path and the permissions of matz.rb
>
> Pinky:rubes pink$ which ruby
> /usr/bin/ruby
> Pinky:rubes pink$ ls -l
> total 8
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 pink  staff  41 Nov 27 08:00 matz.rb
>
>>>>this is what i get when i try to run the script
>
> Pinky:rubes pink$ matz.rb
> -bash: matz.rb: command not found
>
>>>>this is what i get when i put ./ in front, just a prompt no out put
>
> Pinky:rubes pink$ ./matz.rb
> Pinky:rubes pink$
>
>
>>>> this always works as it should
>
> Pinky:rubes pink$ ruby matz.rb
> Hello, Matz!
>
>
> the ./ made a difference but I am puzzled why there is no output.
>

Works for me :-)

$ cat t.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts "Hello, Matz!"
$ chmod +x t.rb
$ ./t.rb
Hello, Matz!
$ PATH=. t.rb
Hello, Matz!
$ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]
$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.5.5
BuildVersion:	9F33

Laurent