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jctown@nb.sympatico.ca

9/8/2006 10:34:00 PM

Hi All... I have just downloaded the ruby-1.8.5-i386-mswin32.zip file
with the hope that I can use ruby under the Interix 2.2 ksh shell
implementation. So I created a directory at the C: root C//ksh_ruby
and unzipped the install file there. Here is a listing

$ ls -ltr
total 1775
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 20531 Aug 26 01:16 ruby.exe
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 856124 Aug 26 01:16 msvcrt-ruby18.dll
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 20532 Aug 26 01:16 rubyw.exe
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 1708 Aug 26 01:17 ri.bat
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 1776 Aug 26 01:17 rdoc.bat
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 545 Aug 26 01:17 irb.bat
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 326 Aug 26 01:17 testrb.bat
-rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 4191 Aug 26 01:17 erb.bat

Being somewhat familiar with Ruby, I thought I could simple run irb.bat
by ./irb.bat similar to the way it is done under the DOS Shell.
Howerver, when I tried it I got the following error.

$ ./irb.bat
../irb.bat: ./irb.bat[1]: @echo: not found
../irb.bat: ./irb.bat[20]: syntax error: `__FILE__' unexpected

So... since I can't seem to locate any documentation on this
implementation, I need some guidance. Is there something I need to add
to my .profile to make this work. I'm on Interix 2.2 (MS hasn't
released an SFU for Windows XP Home yet).
4 Answers

MonkeeSage

9/9/2006 12:21:00 AM

0

ClassRubyExceptionHandline wrote:
> Hi All... I have just downloaded the ruby-1.8.5-i386-mswin32.zip file
> with the hope that I can use ruby under the Interix 2.2 ksh shell
> implementation. So I created a directory at the C: root C//ksh_ruby
> and unzipped the install file there. Here is a listing
>
> $ ls -ltr
> total 1775
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 20531 Aug 26 01:16 ruby.exe
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 856124 Aug 26 01:16 msvcrt-ruby18.dll
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 20532 Aug 26 01:16 rubyw.exe
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 1708 Aug 26 01:17 ri.bat
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 1776 Aug 26 01:17 rdoc.bat
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 545 Aug 26 01:17 irb.bat
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 326 Aug 26 01:17 testrb.bat
> -rwx---rwx 1 Compaq_Owner None 4191 Aug 26 01:17 erb.bat
>
> Being somewhat familiar with Ruby, I thought I could simple run irb.bat
> by ./irb.bat similar to the way it is done under the DOS Shell.
> Howerver, when I tried it I got the following error.
>
> $ ./irb.bat
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[1]: @echo: not found
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[20]: syntax error: `__FILE__' unexpected
>
> So... since I can't seem to locate any documentation on this
> implementation, I need some guidance. Is there something I need to add
> to my .profile to make this work. I'm on Interix 2.2 (MS hasn't
> released an SFU for Windows XP Home yet).

This may help?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/run...

Possibly, ksh doesn't understand the batch language. Mabye you could
port the batch file to a shell script? Does ruby.exe work in ksh?

Regards,
Jordan

David Vallner

9/9/2006 11:07:00 AM

0

ClassRubyExceptionHandline wrote:
> Hi All... I have just downloaded the ruby-1.8.5-i386-mswin32.zip file
> with the hope that I can use ruby under the Interix 2.2 ksh shell
> implementation.

The shell isn't too relevant.

> Being somewhat familiar with Ruby, I thought I could simple run irb.bat
> by ./irb.bat similar to the way it is done under the DOS Shell.
> Howerver, when I tried it I got the following error.
>
> $ ./irb.bat
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[1]: @echo: not found
> ./irb.bat: ./irb.bat[20]: syntax error: `__FILE__' unexpected
>

And not apparently familiar with the shells. You need to invoke a batch
file interpreter to run a batch file. Ksh is a sh-with-extensions
interpreter. Cmd is a batch file interpreter. $COMSPEC ./irb.bat might
have worked.

> So... since I can't seem to locate any documentation on this
> implementation, I need some guidance. Is there something I need to add
> to my .profile to make this work. I'm on Interix 2.2 (MS hasn't
> released an SFU for Windows XP Home yet).
>

And never will. SFU is abandoned to the best of my knowledge, and MS is
adding POSIX support into Windows into the core APIs, not using a
compatibility layer nowadays.

Also,
A) http://www.interix.com/tools/war...

There's the 1.8.2 ruby for Interix.

On Windows, I'd just use the one-click installer. I have very, very
severe doubts about the Interix backend making the implementation
"better" in any way. SFU is just a compatibility layer that tends to
integrate better with Cygwin (I heard), not an actual POSIX
implementation. Unless you really, really need Kernel#fork (pretty much
the only thing I can recall of the native versions not supporting), just
use the MSVC or Mingw32 builds - those are supported and kept up-to-date
by the fluffy people at garbagecollect.

David Vallner

Chris Gehlker

9/9/2006 1:32:00 PM

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On Sep 9, 2006, at 4:06 AM, David Vallner wrote:

> fluffy people at garbagecollect

What are the characteristics of 'fluffy' people?
--
A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not
ideas.

David Vallner

9/9/2006 1:38:00 PM

0

Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2006, at 4:06 AM, David Vallner wrote:
>
>> fluffy people at garbagecollect
>
> What are the characteristics of 'fluffy' people?
>

*gibber*

Pleasant, helpful, etc. Picked the term up from A) The Mask cartoon, B)
Discworld MUD.

David Vallner