Question

I’ve been wanting to run some ruby scripts on remote computers (in a bash shell)

I could create a sequence of bash commands of ruby -e "<command>", but some of these scripts are over 100 lines.

ruby -e with a HEREDOC or %{} & eval() doesn’t work well with the mixture of single and double quotes.

Is there a better way to attempt this?

Edit:

The protocol being used is Apple Remote Desktop, which executes these commands in the scope of the remote shell.

Answer 1

As I also want to run ruby scripts via ARD (which I don’t think can embed a ctrl-D), I first thought you could combine joraff’s solution (to his own problem) with Kelvin’s:

cat << ENDOFSCRIPT | ruby

#Here be code ...

ENDOFSCRIPT

Which saves creating/deleting a file.

But there’s an even better way:

It turns out (duh) that ARD embeds an EOF or just otherwise terminates what it sends in such a way that you can simply do:

ruby

#Paste whole script here

Works at least in ARD 3.6.1. Win!