From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-05-20T01:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: The interpreter path

Two notes as to the following for completeness:

1. Script needs

require 'shell'

2. This works for Unix -- I don't know if it works for Windows, but 
would guess that it does.

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Mark Wilson wrote:

> One way is:
>
> Shell.new.find_system_command('ruby')
>
> which returns the path as an object of class String.
>
> On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Gennady wrote:
>
>> Hi, fellow rubyists
>> �
>> Is there a way to�get the path for the Ruby interpreter itself from 
>> withing a script? I see rb_argv0 in Ruby 1.6.8 source, however I 
>> cannot find the binding to a Ruby constant or some other means to 
>> obtain it. Is there any?
>> �
>> Gennady.
>
>