From: Richard Fairbanks <lists@...>
Date: 2010-04-03T08:49:47+09:00
Subject: Re: “arch -i386 ruby” not loading into 32-bit mode in 10.6.3

> Not clear how you ran it, but it sounds as if you're still running in 
> 64-bit mode.

I’ve been entering it manually into Terminal and also running it as an 
AppleScript:

do shell script "ruby '/Applications/ Scripting/Ruby/Tests/test.rb'"

The results are the same in either case (as in initial post), only the 
OSAX calls fail.

AFAICT, it is still in 64-bit mode. Early on I ran the following with 
the noted result:

# To determine whether Ruby is running in 32bit or 64bit
['foo'].pack('p').size  #=> 8 on 64bit, 4 on 32bit  #=> I got “8”

> To test the script, I changed the hashbang to '#!/usr/bin/env -i386 
> ruby',

I tried that as an initial attempt and it didn’t work either.

> chmodded it to make it executable,

I didn’t know that was necessary as other scripts ran fine, only the 
OSAX calls failed. Please offer some wisdom as to how to set it as such, 
if it is necessary!

> and ran it as ./test.rb, and it ran fine in 32-bit.

I would love to be able to get the same results; at least I now know it 
is possible in 10.6.3! Any other advice would be greatly appreciated! (I 
love AppleScript. Really. I do.  ;-)  )

> FWIW, I have a TODO on embedding Standard Additions terminology in the 
> OSAX module (I've already done this for py-appscript) so that it will 
> work on 64-bit as well. I still need to figure out Ruby 1.9's text 
> encoding support before I do a new release though.

If you would like (yet another) beta-tester, just let me know!

;-)

Thanks for your incredible efforts! Appscript is quite a blessing!

Richard Fairbanks
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