From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T13:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby -e not printing to stdout

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

>  Ok, I found the source, (it doesn't appear to be Ruby's
>  fault) but it's not clear to me how to correct it. 
>  I have wrapper csh script that calls exec 
>  on ruby. Exec is supposed to redirect stdio. Since I get
>  the version to print it appears to be working for stderr,
>  but not for stdout.
>
>  % -> ruby.wrap -e 'puts $:.join("\n")'
>
>  -> ./ruby.wrap -v
>  ruby 1.7.3 (2002-12-04) [i386-freebsd4.6]
>  % -> cat ruby.wrap 
>  #! /bin/csh -f
>  exec /home/jfreeze/ruby173/bin/ruby $argv[*]

I'm clueless as to what is actually causing your problem, but since
ruby.wrap does basically nothing, I would just delete it and make
ruby.wrap a symlink to /home/jfreze/ruby173/bin/ruby.  This removes
csh from the equation.