From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T04:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: simple ruby project layout question

David Masover wrote:
...
> So, in the Ruby world, bin is just "executables", binary or otherwise, 
> as distinct from lib, where you would find library code. Both are ruby 
> files, but bin/foo you might actually expect to set executable and run 
> as a command, whereas if you did the same to lib/foo.rb, it probably 
> wouldn't do anything.

Not just the ruby world.

count = 0
Dir['/usr/bin/*'].each do |fn|
   next if File.directory? fn
   File.open(fn) do |f|
     count += 1 if /^#!/ =~ f.read(100)
   end
end
p count # ==> 574

Of course some of those are shell scripts that just execute a true 
"binary executable".

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