Ruby on Mac OS X

Date	2012-12-19 09:14 -0800
From	Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net>
Organization	Magicon Inc.
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Ruby on Mac OS X
Message-ID	<auWdnbRy8eJ6aEzNnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink)

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HI,

I'm learning Ruby on OS 10.4.11 (yes, I know, I'll be getting a new Mac 
next year).

When I use irb and type straight into the Terminal application, 
everything works fine.  When I create the source file with a text editor 
and use the ruby command to interpret and execute it, however, I get a 
syntax error.

This appears to be caused by the fact that the Mac OS uses CR to 
terminate lines, whereas UNIX expects LF: when I use BBedit to save in 
UNIX format, the syntax errors disappear.

I notice that XCode in 10.5 save its source in UNIX format also.

Does anyone know if this behaviour has changed in later implementations? 
  i.e. will they accept text in Mac or Windows formats?  Or must all 
source be converted to UNIX format?

Thanks.

Paul Magnussen

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Ruby on Mac OS X Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2012-12-19 09:14 -0800
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    Re: Ruby on Mac OS X Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2012-12-21 08:29 -0800

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