From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2010-11-02T01:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What does ruby.exe do?

On 2/11/2010 12:16 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 11/1/2010 11:13 AM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
>> On 1/11/2010 12:34 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>> For instance, I can name a file myscript.jeremy and configure it so that
>>> it will be run with Ruby, Python, Perl, or some other interpreter of my
>>> choosing.  I could then create another file named myotherscript.jeremy
>>> and set it up to run using a completely different interpreter.
>>>
>>> This is not possible under Windows.  The .jeremy extension can only be
>>> associated with a single program, so one of those files would have to be
>>> run by manually calling the correct program with the file as an argument.
>> Or you could associate .jeremy with a program that parses the "shebang"
>> line :)
> That's actually a great idea.  Can you recommend such a program?  It
> should be fairly easy to write one, but no sense reinventing the wheel. :-)

I've never used one for it, but I was just a bit offended by the "This 
is *not possible* under Windows." line... so, I suggested the first 
thing that came to mind.  But, if you do write one, I'd love to have a 
copy :)

Cheers,
Mohit.
2/11/2010 | 12:48 AM.