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using SCL in the command call for Ruby script


My employer has Ruby 1.8.7 in the /usr/bin/ruby, and allows the usage of Ruby 2.4 only via SCL (sofoware collections).
Which means that when I run ruby, I need to use (from the RH6 shell) scl enablde ruby-24 'ruby foo.rb' when foo.rb is the file name. I want to enable the ruby call on the first execution line, i.e., instead of the Ruby code file looking like:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts "Hello world"

That the code will look

#!cmd
puts "Hello world"

Where the cmd is what calls via the scl and run the Ruby 2.4 for the puts command. I know that a wrapper file can be used. I want something in 1 file.

Solution

  • How about this:

    #!/usr/bin/ruby
if RUBY_VERSION != "2.4.1"
  exec "scl enable ruby-24; ruby __FILE__"
end
puts "Ruby Version: #{RUBY_VERSION}"