Question

In ruby script we can pass parameter like this in console:

 `ruby r3.rb sam sou "samarth pandey"`

this will receive in a array but now i want to send parameter like this

 `ruby sam sou {:sam => abc, :sou => abc}`

So how can i do this i don’t want to make my hash as string like

 `ruby sam sou "{:sam => abc, :sou => abc}"`

Answer 1

There is no way to pass the hash without quotes, because the shell would recognize > as an output redirection and pipe the output of your script into a file called abc}.

EDITED:

With the Ruby 1.9 Hash syntax you could do something like this:

foo.rb:

p eval(ARGV.join(' ').gsub(/: (.+?)([,|}])/, ': "\1"\2'))

In the shell:

$ ruby foo.rb {lkj: dssd, kjdsh: kldiu} #=> {:lkj=>"dssd", :kjdsh=>"kldiu"}

I think this is not very elegant nor is the syntax valid Ruby since the quotes of the values are missing, but it would be a solution for your task.