Re: [Rubygems-developers] Adjusting Shebang in gem files

[Jim Freeze]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Chad Fowler wrote: Personally I'm of the opinion that the default should be that we   maintain the current behavior.  Particularly with binary gems, we   can't guarantee that the ruby in the path will work with the gem in   question.  I just maintain separate hardcoded gem installations for   the versions of Ruby I have installed. If we keep the same usage model, I think I agree with Chad that we keep the same behavior and add an option to use the  #!/usr/bin/env ruby shebang. But, I would like to propose another option. The situation I have is a multi-OS gem repository with many users able to install gems. If the 'env' shebang is an option, chances are high that there will exist installs that are platform specific because  the installer forgot the 'env' shebang option. It would be nice if there were a default setting for a particular gem directory that could control the shebang. This will prevent forgetful installers from installing gems that run on only one OS. I haven't explored how to do this and would request someone more familiar with the details of gems if this is currently an existing feature. Thanks Jim Freeze

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