The primary reason I would guess is that necessity of typing:

rdoc.rb

as cmd is not all that smart and will not execute rdoc.rb, unless you
type it with the extension -- not a big deal when typing, but it would
do a real number on some scripts.


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:19:49 +0900, linus sellberg <sellberg / google.com> wrote:
> Jim Menard wrote:
> > Herein is described a problem with using Rake's RDocTask on Windows, and
> > a proposed workaround. The workaround works well enough, but does
> > anybody else have a better one?
> 
> Why use a .bat file at all? The one click installer makes .rb files
> executable which means you needn't bother with bats.
> 
>