Roger Pack
2009-Aug-17 17:10 UTC
[Rubyinstaller-devel] [ANN] release: a "which" command written in ruby--very useful for windows users at least
Announcing the release of "ruby which"[1] README: Ruby-which is the linux "which" command re-written in ruby [and windows-friendly]. -- An executable locator (which command) for windows that actually works! There seems to be a lack of a "which" command for windows that actually work--they sometimes skip batch files entirely [batch file? what''s that?] or don''t list extensions, leaving you in doubt. Despite running "which yyy" you never know what you''re really running when you next run yyy in the command line--is it yyy.exe or some other yyy.bat that wasn''t reported by "which"? Try it--you might really like it. To install: C:\>gem install rogerdpack-whichr C:\>whichr executable_name_here [extension can be included, but is optional] usage: C:\>whichr ruby higher in the list will be executed first ./ruby.bat C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe c:/cygwin/bin/ruby.exe Feedback welcome rogerdpack on github/gmail [1] not to be confused with this witch...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm7DLMhQxo Also Related: http://github.com/Pistos/ruby-which -- this library discovers the location of installed ruby libraries, i.e. which gem folder they''re in "C:\>rwhich ruby-which c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/Pistos-ruby-which-0.5.3/lib/ruby-which.rb" Enjoy. -r