I found an alternative shortly after:
r = "echo '#{ h.inspect }'"
`#{ r } | bbedit`
r is a hash.
Cheers
On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 11:53:12 AM UTC-5, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
> IO.popen("bbedit", "w") do |subproc|
> subproc.puts("string for bbedit")
> subproc.closeend
>
> On 9 Jan 2018, at 17:54, BeeRich33 wrote:
>
> Hiya folks.
>
> Just wondering if anybody knows how to pipe a ruby string to bbedit. Once
> in a while I'd like to send the output of a ruby script to bbedit.
> Obviously this would open in an untitled text file, unsaved. I have the
> bbedit command line tools installed, and I pipe other stuff to bbedit.
> Great tools actually.
>
> I'm currently trying this:
>
> system ('echo "#{ puts h }" | bbedit')
>
> Result:
>
> #{ puts h }
>
> So I reversed the quotations:
>
> system ("echo '#{ puts h }' | bbedit")
>
>
> ...which outputs nothing.
>
> So backticks:
>
> `echo '#{ puts h }' | bbedit`
>
>
> Also results in nothing. Tried double quotations, nothing.
>
> Without creating a temp file and some fancy workaround in the
> filesystem/bash, is this possible? Any insight appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
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