From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T01:03:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby Application

On 26.01.2010 16:40, Phrogz wrote:

> You don't even need it to have a .rb extension if you have a shebang
> line at the top.
> (Even works on Windows.)
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -KU

No, it doesn't.

PS C:\Scripts> .\shebang.ext # Pops up Windows' unknown filetype dialog
PS C:\Scripts> cat .\shebang.ext
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -KU

puts "hello world"
PS C:\Scripts>
PS C:\Scripts> mv .\shebang.ext .\shebang.rb
PS C:\Scripts> .\shebang.rb
hello world
PS C:\Scripts>

Ruby's installers register the .rb[w] extension with Windows, however.

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Phillip Gawlowski