From: Dennis Sutch <dennis@...>
Date: 2002-01-29T10:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby for DOS

I don't have any experience with the version of ruby that you are using, nor
with using any version under DR-DOS, but I have experienced the same type of
problem.  That said, here is how I solved it -- YMMV.

To get a simple "Hello, World" type of script to work under DOS, I did this:

@echo off
ruby -Sx "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
goto endofruby
#!ruby

puts "Hello, DOS user\n";

__END__
:endofruby

This script works well for me under Windows ME when saved as "hello.bat" and
executed as "hello.bat" from the C prompt.

Under Windows 2000, I was able to improve this script by changing this line:

ruby -Sx "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

 to:

ruby -Sx "%~nx0" %*

When this modified script is saved as "hello.bat" it can be executed as
either "hello.bat" or "hello" from the C prompt.

To get IRB to work under DOS, I modified the original irb.bat file to use
the above DOS batch code.  Another option that I initially used was to copy
irb.bat to irb and modify irb.bat to run ruby using something like:

ruby -Sx "irb" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Good luck.


"Larry Forrister" <L4@di1.net> wrote in message
news:3C4E90E0.6070302@di1.net...
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use ruby under DR-DOS 7.03 ( aka Caldera DOS / Novell DOS )
> I am using the precompiled version downloaded from
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/ruby/binaries/djgpp/
>
> C:> ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i386-msdosdjgpp]
>
> The problem is when I try run irb I get the results shown below.  I can
> run my own 'hello world' type scripts without trouble.  The irb file of
> course exists at the specified location.  The DOS path contains in part:
> c:\usr\local\bin ;
>
> Does anyone know how to get this working?
> Thanks
> ~~LF
>
> C:> ruby c:\usr\local\bin\irb
> C:/USR/LOCAL/lib/ruby/1.6/irb.rb:16:in `require': No such file to load
> -- irb/extend-command (LoadError)
>     from C:/USR/LOCAL/lib/ruby/1.6/irb.rb:16
>     from c:/usr/local/bin/irb:10:in `require'
>     from c:/usr/local/bin/irb:10
>
>