On Nov 7, 2007, at 21:01 , aemadrid / gmail.com wrote: > Is there any way to check the Ruby syntax on a file or string of Ruby > code besides doing something like `ruby -v xyz.rb`? Is there a gem > that would help me here? In emacs you can set up flymake to do syntax checks when idle... but all it is doing is a `ruby -v tmp$$.rb` on the current buffer contents.