From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T17:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: how to require more than one thing from the command line

7stud -- wrote:
> ...and this does nothing:
> 
> $ ruby -e 'x=10;' r1test.rb
> $

4) Why does that do nothing?  Here is another example:

r1test.rb
-------
puts "world"

$ ruby -e 'puts "hello"' r1test.rb
hello
$

I expected the output to be:

$ ruby -e 'puts "hello"' r1test.rb
hello
world
$

According to pickaxe2, p 177-178:

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A ruby command line consists of three parts: options to the Ruby 
interpreter, optionally the name of the program to run, and optionally a 
set of arguments for that program.

ruby [options] [--] [programfile] [arguments]

Command-Line Options

-e 'command'

If programfile is omitted when -e is present, execution stops after the 
-e commands have been run.
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To me that implies that if programfile is present, then programfile will 
execute after the -e commands.
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