From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T10:22:06+09:00
Subject: Re: simple ruby project layout question

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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".
>
Yikes. You sure know how to make a point! Thanks for the demo.

T.

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