Todd Burch wrote:
> Any time I'm kicking off a script from the Command Prompt or in Terminal
> on the Mac, I simply type
>
> ruby <name>.rb
>
> and it works just fine.
>
> So, when it comes down to it, what's the point of the shebang line?

The point of the shebang line is not to have to tell the computer to open
the file with ruby. So you could write ./script or double click the script
in the file manager, even if it doesn't have the .rb-extension or the file
manager doesn't know how to open .rb-files.


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