Question

I’m looking for solution how can run Ruby script without invoking it directly like

ruby /path/to/file.rb

So far, I have been using aliases in my .bashrc to create shortcut like

alias myscript='ruby /path/to/file.rb'

But now, I need to create a gem which I’d like to use on different computers and my current approach doesn’t fit well for this.

Answer 1

What you could do is the following:

1. Create a shell script which invokes the Ruby script as your alias does:

   ruby /path/to/file.rb
   

2. Set a softlink to the /usr/bin/ path to invoke it in the shell using somecommand:

   ln -s /full/path/to/the/previously/created/shellscript /usr/bin/somecommand
   

3. If you wanna go further, you could create a shell script which does the soft-linking automatically.