Ruby Scripts: Select the Ruby version in the shebang
As Bill Dueber has on his blog, you can call rvm
in the shebang to select a Ruby version like this:
#!/usr/bin/env rvm 1.9 do ruby
Standard arguments to do
apply, see $> rvm help do
.
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