The first method that comes to mind is to use a Unix pipe:

echo ‘foo’ | bbedit

Thus you would have your Ruby script output the text to be edited, then pipe 
that to bbedit:

ruby_script | bbedit

Perhaps I misunderstood the question?

> On 16 Dec 2014, at 05:05, Rich F <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> I’d like to have BBEdit receive text that I have parked in a Ruby variable 
> coming out of open-uri.  Is there a way to create a new document that’s 
> unsaved, then copy that variable to that document?  I’m assuming I’ll use the 
> bbedit command line interface for this, but I can’t seem to find any way of 
> targeting a new document.  Scratchpad might be an option, but it’s not 
> elegant.
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> 
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