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Bengineer
Bengineer

Reputation: 7742

make a ruby code as a console command

I created a gem with jeweler and I want a command hat to call a specific function in my gem. In Python I can put this

entry_points="""
      [console_scripts]
      hat = hat:hat
      """

in setup.py and it works, but how is it done in ruby?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 258

Answers (2)

sunnyrjuneja
sunnyrjuneja

Reputation: 6123

$ mkdir bin
$ touch bin/foo
$ chmod a+x bin/foo

Edit bin/foo

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'foo'
#Anything you want.......

Add following to Gemfile

 s.executables << 'foo'

As per:

Making ruby gems respond to terminal commands

There is also:

http://visionmedia.github.com/commander/

Upvotes: 3

tadman
tadman

Reputation: 211540

For the console, you can add things to your .irbrc file just as you would in Python.

Within the context of the irb console, though, methods must be defined in the main namespace. Obviously you want to be careful about what you add here since it can cause confusion if you start to spike in a large number of these with arbitrary names.

Upvotes: 0

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