Help Me/Question What Are Your Favorite Commands To Execute Ruby Programs

Hello @jazzvaga,

Do you mean what are the command-line switches to use Ruby?

If you want to test a one-liner you can do it with the -e switch, with the format:

ruby -e '<your code here>'

for instance:

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ruby -e 'puts "Hello WebmasterServe"'

If you want to interpret your program, you simply pass it to ruby in the command line:

ruby <your program's file path here>

Say you saved your program as the file wms.rb

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puts "Hello WebmasterServe"

You would run it like:

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ruby wms.rb

If you want to execute your program directly as any other program in your box, then you would add a shebang + ruby's interpreter path as your program's first line:

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts "Hello WebMasterServe"

Then give it execution permission with CHMOD:

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chmod +x wms.rb

And finally run it as you would do with any other program:

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./wms.rb