Arguments

[ZenVirZan]

I'm making a map editor much alike RMXP's in Ruby, but with native integration of my own scripts. What I'm trying to do is be able to go Right Click > Open With > Editor.bat and have it open my application.

Passing "ruby editor.rb maps/map.gmp" works okay.

I've tried "ruby editor.rb %~f1" and many other variants in batch but they all don't work - it pretty much ignores the ruby line completely, ending at the trailing pause. I inserted a snippit of code at the first line of my editor.rb to print the contents of ARGV to a file, but that doesn't even make the file. If I run the batch normally, it opens the new project screen fine, but when I open a file with the editor.bat it just crashes and doesn't run any Ruby at all.

How do I pass batch arguments to script arguments?

 

[Xilef]

Ruby editor has a space in it, you must parse as "ruby editor.rb" in quotes or change the application name to remove spaces

 

[Drago del Fato]

As far as I know. When dealing with batch scripts in windows you pass command line arguments to them in %1,%2, ..., %9 and then you use those in batch to form a command so contents of your editor.bat should be:

ruby editor.rb %1

But you should make sure to include a full path (because current working directory changes as you move around in Windows Explorer) to script location like this:

ruby "c:\path to your script\editor.rb" %1

Make sure you use "" since you probably have folders with spaces in their name in full path.

 

[ZenVirZan]

Ah, thankyou both! That was painfully obvious. I just didn't have the path to the editor in full so it couldn't find it :3

 

[biyu]

I was going to post more of what the same Drago said! Glad you got found it.