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-.\"Ruby is copyrighted by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.jp>.
-.Dd December 31, 2002
-.Dt RUBY(1) "" "Ruby Programmers Reference Guide"
-.\".Dt RUBY 1
-.Os UNIX
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm ruby
-.Nd Interpreted object-oriented scripting language
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm
-.Op Fl -copyright
-.Op Fl -version
-.Op Fl SUacdlnpswvy
-.Op Fl 0 Ns Op Ar octal
-.Op Fl C Ar directory
-.Op Fl E Ar external Ns Op : Ns Ar internal
-.Op Fl F Ar pattern
-.Op Fl I Ar directory
-.Op Fl K Ar c
-.Op Fl T Ns Op Ar level
-.Op Fl W Ns Op Ar level
-.Op Fl e Ar command
-.Op Fl i Ns Op Ar extension
-.Op Fl r Ar library
-.Op Fl x Ns Op Ar directory
-.Op - Ns Bro Cm enable Ns | Ns Cm disable Brc Ns - Ns Ar FEATURE
-.Op Fl -verbose
-.Op Fl -
-.Op Ar program_file
-.Op Ar argument ...
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
-object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
-files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple,
-straight-forward, and extensible.
-.Pp
-If you want a language for easy object-oriented programming, or you
-don't like the Perl ugliness, or you do like the concept of LISP, but
-don't like too much parentheses, Ruby may be the language of your
-choice.
-.Sh FEATURES
-Ruby's features are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width 6n
-.It Sy "Interpretive"
-Ruby is an interpreted language, so you don't have to recompile
-programs written in Ruby to execute them.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Variables have no type (dynamic typing)"
-Variables in Ruby can contain data of any type. You don't have to
-worry about variable typing. Consequently, it has a weaker compile
-time check.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "No declaration needed"
-You can use variables in your Ruby programs without any declarations.
-Variable names denote their scope, local, global, instance, etc.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Simple syntax"
-Ruby has a simple syntax influenced slightly from Eiffel.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "No user-level memory management"
-Ruby has automatic memory management. Objects no longer referenced
-from anywhere are automatically collected by the garbage collector
-built into the interpreter.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Everything is an object"
-Ruby is the purely object-oriented language, and was so since its
-creation. Even such basic data as integers are seen as objects.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Class, inheritance, and methods"
-Of course, as an object-oriented language, Ruby has such basic
-features like classes, inheritance, and methods.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Singleton methods"
-Ruby has the ability to define methods for certain objects. For
-example, you can define a press-button action for certain widget by
-defining a singleton method for the button. Or, you can make up your
-own prototype based object system using singleton methods, if you want
-to.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Mix-in by modules"
-Ruby intentionally does not have the multiple inheritance as it is a
-source of confusion. Instead, Ruby has the ability to share
-implementations across the inheritance tree. This is often called
-.Sq Mix-in .
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Iterators"
-Ruby has iterators for loop abstraction.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Closures"
-In Ruby, you can objectify the procedure.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Text processing and regular expression"
-Ruby has a bunch of text processing features like in Perl.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "M17N, character set independent"
-Ruby supports multilingualized programming. Easy to process texts
-written in many different natural languages and encoded in many
-different character encodings, without dependence on Unicode.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Bignums"
-With built-in bignums, you can for example calculate factorial(400).
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Reflection and domain specific languages"
-Class is also an instance of Class class. Definition of classes and methods
-is just an expression as 1+1 is. So your programs can even write and modify programs.
-Thus you can write your application in your own programming language on top of Ruby.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Exception handling"
-As in Java(tm).
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Direct access to the OS"
-Ruby can use most
-.Ux
-system calls, often used in system programming.
-.Pp
-.It Sy "Dynamic loading"
-On most
-.Ux
-systems, you can load object files into the Ruby interpreter
-on-the-fly.
-.It Sy "Rich libraries"
-Libraries called "builtin libraries" and "standard libraries" are bundled with Ruby.
-And you can obtain more libraries via the package management system called `RubyGems'.
-
-Moreover there are thousands of Ruby projects in Rubyforge
-.Pf ( "http://www.rubyforge.org" ) and RAA
-.Pf ( "http://raa.ruby-lang.org" ) Ns .
-.El
-.Pp
-.Sh OPTIONS
-Ruby interpreter accepts following command-line options (switches).
-They are quite similar to those of
-.Xr perl 1 .
-.Bl -tag -width "1234567890123" -compact
-.Pp
-.It Fl -copyright
-Prints the copyright notice.
-.Pp
-.It Fl -version
-Prints the version of Ruby interpreter.
-.Pp
-.It Fl 0 Ns Op Ar octal
-(The digit
-.Dq zero . )
-Specifies the input record separator
-.Pf ( Li "$/" )
-as an octal number. If no digit is given, the null character is taken
-as the separator. Other switches may follow the digits.
-.Fl 00
-turns Ruby into paragraph mode.
-.Fl 0777
-makes Ruby read whole file at once as a single string since there is
-no legal character with that value.
-.Pp
-.It Fl C Ar directory
-.It Fl X Ar directory
-Causes Ruby to switch to the directory.
-.Pp
-.It Fl E Ar external Ns Op : Ns Ar internal
-.It Fl -encoding Ar external Ns Op : Ns Ar internal
-Specifies the default value(s) for external encodings and internal encoding. Values should be separated with colon (:).
-
-You can ommit the one for internal encodings, then the value
-.Pf ( Li "Encoding.default_internal" ) will be nil.
-.Pp
-.It Fl F Ar pattern
-Specifies input field separator
-.Pf ( Li "$;" ) .
-.Pp
-.It Fl I Ar directory
-Used to tell Ruby where to load the library scripts. Directory path
-will be added to the load-path variable
-.Pf ( Li "$:" ) .
-.Pp
-.It Fl K Ar kcode
-Specifies KANJI (Japanese) encoding. The default value for script encodings
-.Pf ( Li "__ENCODING__" ) and external encodings ( Li "Encoding.default_external" ) will be the specified one.
-.Ar kcode
-can be one of
-.Bl -hang -offset indent
-.It Sy e
-EUC-JP
-.Pp
-.It Sy s
-Windows-31J (CP932)
-.Pp
-.It Sy u
-UTF-8
-.Pp
-.It Sy n
-ASCII-8BIT (BINARY)
-.El
-.Pp
-.It Fl S
-Makes Ruby use the
-.Ev PATH
-environment variable to search for script, unless if its name begins
-with a slash. This is used to emulate
-.Li #!
-on machines that don't support it, in the following manner:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-#! /usr/local/bin/ruby
-# This line makes the next one a comment in Ruby \e
- exec /usr/local/bin/ruby -S $0 $*
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It Fl T Ns Op Ar level
-Turns on taint checks at the specified level (default 1).
-.Pp
-.It Fl U
-Sets the defalut value for internal encodings
-.Pf ( Li "Encoding.default_internal" ) to UTF-8.
-.Pp
-.It Fl W Ns Op Ar level
-Turns on verbose mode at the specified level, without printing version
-message at the beginning. The level can be;
-.Bl -hang -offset indent
-.It Sy 0
-Verbose mode is "silence". It sets the
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-to nil.
-.Pp
-.It Sy 1
-Verbose mode is "medium". It sets the
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-to false.
-.Pp
-.It Sy 2 (default)
-Verbose mode is "verbose". It sets the
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-to true.
-.Fl W Ns
-2 is same as
-.Fl w
-.
-.El
-.Pp
-.It Fl a
-Turns on auto-split mode when used with
-.Fl n
-or
-.Fl p .
-In auto-split mode, Ruby executes
-.Dl $F = $_.split
-at beginning of each loop.
-.Pp
-.It Fl c
-Causes Ruby to check the syntax of the script and exit without
-executing. If there are no syntax errors, Ruby will print
-.Dq Syntax OK
-to the standard output.
-.Pp
-.It Fl d
-.It Fl -debug
-Turns on debug mode.
-.Li "$DEBUG"
-will be set to true.
-.Pp
-.It Fl e Ar command
-Specifies script from command-line while telling Ruby not to search
-the rest of arguments for a script file name.
-.Pp
-.It Fl h
-.It Fl -help
-Prints a summary of the options.
-.Pp
-.It Fl i Ar extension
-Specifies in-place-edit mode. The extension, if specified, is added
-to old file name to make a backup copy. For example:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-% echo matz > /tmp/junk
-% cat /tmp/junk
-matz
-% ruby -p -i.bak -e '$_.upcase!' /tmp/junk
-% cat /tmp/junk
-MATZ
-% cat /tmp/junk.bak
-matz
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It Fl l
-(The lowercase letter
-.Dq ell . )
-Enables automatic line-ending processing, which means to firstly set
-.Li "$\e"
-to the value of
-.Li "$/" ,
-and secondly chops every line read using
-.Li chop! .
-.Pp
-.It Fl n
-Causes Ruby to assume the following loop around your script, which
-makes it iterate over file name arguments somewhat like
-.Nm sed
-.Fl n
-or
-.Nm awk .
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-while gets
- ...
-end
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It Fl p
-Acts mostly same as -n switch, but print the value of variable
-.Li "$_"
-at the each end of the loop. For example:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-% echo matz | ruby -p -e '$_.tr! "a-z", "A-Z"'
-MATZ
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It Fl r Ar library
-Causes Ruby to load the library using require. It is useful when using
-.Fl n
-or
-.Fl p .
-.Pp
-.It Fl s
-Enables some switch parsing for switches after script name but before
-any file name arguments (or before a
-.Fl - ) .
-Any switches found there are removed from
-.Li ARGV
-and set the corresponding variable in the script. For example:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-#! /usr/local/bin/ruby -s
-# prints "true" if invoked with `-xyz' switch.
-print "true\en" if $xyz
-.Ed
-.Pp
-On some systems
-.Li "$0"
-does not always contain the full pathname, so you need the
-.Fl S
-switch to tell Ruby to search for the script if necessary. To handle
-embedded spaces or such. A better construct than
-.Li "$*"
-would be
-.Li ${1+"$@"} ,
-but it does not work if the script is being interpreted by
-.Xr csh 1 .
-.Pp
-.It Fl v
-Enables verbose mode. Ruby will print its version at the beginning,
-and set the variable
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-to true. Some methods print extra messages if this variable is true.
-If this switch is given, and no other switches are present, Ruby quits
-after printing its version.
-.Pp
-.It Fl w
-Enables verbose mode without printing version message at the
-beginning. It sets the
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-variable to true.
-.Pp
-.It Fl x Ns Op Ar directory
-Tells Ruby that the script is embedded in a message. Leading garbage
-will be discarded until the first that starts with
-.Dq #!
-and contains the string,
-.Dq ruby .
-Any meaningful switches on that line will applied. The end of script
-must be specified with either
-.Li EOF ,
-.Li "^D" ( Li "control-D" ) ,
-.Li "^Z" ( Li "control-Z" ) ,
-or reserved word
-.Li __END__ .
-If the directory name is specified, Ruby will switch to that directory
-before executing script.
-.Pp
-.It Fl y
-.It Fl -yydebug
-Turns on compiler debug mode. Ruby will print a bunch of internal
-state messages during compiling scripts. You don't have to specify
-this switch, unless you are going to debug the Ruby interpreter.
-.Pp
-.It Fl -disable- Ns Ar FEATURE
-.It Fl -enable- Ns Ar FEATURE
-Disables (or enables) the specified
-.Ar FEATURE Ns
-\&.
-.Bl -tag -width "--disable-rubyopt" -compact
-.It Fl -disable-gems
-.It Fl -enable-gems
-Disables (or enables) RubyGems libraries. By default, Ruby will load the latest
-version of each installed gem. The
-.Li Gem
-constant is true if RubyGems is enabled, false if otherwise.
-.Pp
-.It Fl -disable-rubyopt
-.It Fl -enable-rubyopt
-Ignores (or considers) the
-.Ev RUBYOPT
-environment variable. By default, Ruby considers the variable.
-.Pp
-.It Fl -disable-all
-.It Fl -enable-all
-Disables (or enables) all features.
-.Pp
-.El
-.Pp
-.It Fl -verbose
-Enables verbose mode without printing version message at the
-beginning. It sets the
-.Li "$VERBOSE"
-variable to true.
-If this switch is given, and no other switches are present, Ruby quits
-after printing its version.
-.El
-.Pp
-.Sh ENVIRONMENT
-.Bl -tag -width "RUBYLIB_PREFIX" -compact
-.It Ev RUBYLIB
-A colon-separated list of directories that are added to Ruby's
-library load path
-.Pf ( Li "$:" ) . Directories from this environment variable are searched
-before the standard load path is searched.
-.Pp
-e.g.:
-.Dl RUBYLIB="$HOME/lib/ruby:$HOME/lib/rubyext"
-.Pp
-.It Ev RUBYOPT
-Additional Ruby options.
-.Pp
-e.g.
-.Dl RUBYOPT="-w -Ke"
-.Pp
-.It Ev RUBYPATH
-A colon-separated list of directories that Ruby searches for
-Ruby programs when the
-.Fl S
-flag is specified. This variable precedes the
-.Ev PATH
-environment variable.
-.Pp
-.It Ev RUBYSHELL
-The path to the system shell command. This environment variable is
-enabled for only mswin32, mingw32, and OS/2 platforms. If this
-variable is not defined, Ruby refers to
-.Ev COMSPEC .
-.Pp
-.It Ev PATH
-Ruby refers to the
-.Ev PATH
-environment variable on calling Kernel#system.
-.Pp
-.It Ev RUBYLIB_PREFIX
-This variable is obsolete.
-.El
-.Pp
-And Ruby depends on some RubyGems related environment variables unless disabled RubyGems.
-See the help of
-.Xr gem 1
-as bellow.
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-% gem help
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Bl -hang -compact -width "http://www.ruby-lang.org/123"
-.It http://www.ruby-lang.org
-The official web site.
-.It http://www.rubyforge.org
-hosting many open source ruby projects.
-.It http://raa.ruby-lang.org
-Ruby Application Archive.
-.El
-.Pp
-.Sh REPORTING BUGS
-.Bl -bullet
-.Li Security vulnerabilities should be reported via an email to
-.Aq security@ruby-lang.org Ns
-.Li .
-Reported problems will be published after fixed.
-.Pp
-.Li And you can report other bugs and feature requests via the
-Ruby Issue Tracking System (http://redmine.ruby-lang.org).
-Do not report security vulnerabilities
-via the system because it publishes the vulnerabilities immedately.
-.El
-.Sh AUTHORS
-Ruby is designed and implemented by
-.An Yukihiro Matsumoto Aq matz@netlab.jp .