Question

First, sorry if this is a stoopid question, but I don’t know much about ruby.

I have a ruby script I use often, and I use several options, but only the last option is the one that changes, it looks something like:

./script.rb -t 50 -n -g -f alwaysthesame.txt -x <URL ALL THE TIME> -Y <OPTIONAL NUMBER>

sometimes I add < OPTIONAL NUMBER > at the end, but I only use that 5% of the time.

What I want is to have another .rb script (or maybe an alias [im using linux]), that I can call like

./alias.rb <URL ALL THE TIME> <OPIONAL NUMBER>

And that would run the first .rb script with all the options.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Here is a link that is informitive about various ways to exec Ruby Exec

in alias.rb

Kernel.exec("/path/to/script.rb -t 50 -n -g -f alwaysthesame.txt -x <URL ALL THE TIME> #{ARGV.join(" ")}")

Running the below would generate the line below it

./alias.rb foo bar baz=5
#/path/to/script.rb -t 50 -n -g -f alwaysthesame.txt -x <URL ALL THE TIME> foo bar baz=5