WoooHooooo!!! That did it. The arguments were there except the last
%* was in quotes. Took the quotes off and presto. I can now do

>my_script args

and get the correct output.

 Thanks everyone!

Jayson

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail / onghu.com> wrote:
> Daniel Schöíer wrote:
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>> Jayson Williams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The associations are correct. I reset them just to be sure though. I
>>> can execute the script without ruby, and it runs, but without ruby
>>> first, the args are not getting read.
>>>
>>
>> Are command-line arguments included in the file association?
>> There should be something like "...\ruby.exe" "$*" or
>> "...\ruby.exe" "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "%5" (up to %9, this form is
>> restricted to 9 arguments).
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> OK!  I have it here... I just checked through the Windows XP stuff on my
> PC...
> I think this is what you need to do.
>
> 1. Open a folder.
> 2. Select Tools > Folder Options
> 3. Tab: File Types
> 4. Scroll down till you find RB in the list
> 5. In the box that says 'Details for ...' click on [Advanced]
> 6. There is a box called 'Actions'
> 7. Select the open action - create a new one called open if it isn't there
> 8. In the pop-up window, these are my settings:
>  Action: open
>  Application used to perform this action: "c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "%1" %*
>  [x] use DDE
>  Application: ruby
>  Topic: System
>  (other fields blank)
> [OK]
>
> Try?
>
> Cheers,
> Mohit.
> 11/26/2008 | 1:50 AM.
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