Ruby on Rails Terminal Executable Script Not Passing Arguments

Question

I'm on OSX 10.8 and i'm trying to execute a script from my home directory, ~.

The script is to shorten the creation of a new rails app, e.g:

ruby new path/to/app

This is the alias in my ~/.profile:

alias rc="~/.rubynew

And the contents of .rubynew, which have been run through chmod 755 ~/.rubynew are:

#!/bin/bash

$path="~/Documents/Rails_Apps/"

ruby new $path+=$1

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Executed as:

rc helloworld

Should create an application with the path:

~/Documents/Rails_Apps/hellworld

I'm getting errors for these, which I use to compile c with gcc, in exactly the same method. I have Googled this for a good one hour and rewritten in 50 different ways and it refuses to work, any guesses?

~/Documents/Rails_Apps does exist.

Errors:

/Users/tsujp/.rubynew: line 3: =~/Documents/Rails_Apps/: No such file or directory
ruby: No such file or directory -- new (LoadError)

Ah, well fixing that still yields no result. It defaults back to the home directory. — tsujp
– tsujp, Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:21

tsujp · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-12 12:29:20Z

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Solved.

First of all, I had ruby new instead of rails new

Secondly I didn't need to concatenate the lines in the script, this yields:

#!/bin/bash

rails new "~/Documents/Rails_Apps/"$1

It now works as intended.

answered Aug 12, 2013 at 12:29

tsujp

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