tell application “Terminal”
do script “ruby test2.rb /Users/gauvins/Desktop/test.txt”
end tell

it solved the broken path problem. I have not tried yet to pass values back and forth, but I foresee no major problem.

Sorry if the solution was painfully obvious and thanks for your time. I’ll certainly devote some more time to learn ruby and rb-appscripts as they seem to be very efficient compared to applescript (probably because my problems have to deal with string manipulations, certainly not an applescript’s strength)

At this point your best bet would probably be to submit the same question to the rb-appscript mailing list as I know there is number of eyes watching the posts:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rb-appscript-discuss

I’ve had good luck and quick turn around using this approach. Hope that helps.

John

The problem has to do with paths (I think). As an illustration — the script below fails with the error message when called from an applescript: (I’ve installed rb-appscript 0.5.1 manually and with gems. No apparent difference ; run directly from the Terminal, test.rb executes)

——–
error
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/Users/gauvins/test.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load — appscript (LoadError)
from /Users/gauvins/test.rb:1

————–
test.rb:
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require “appscript”
include Appscript
puts app(’TextWrangler’).name.get

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applescript (from the script editor):
————————————–

set f to “/Users/gauvins/test.rb”
set s to “ruby ” & quoted form of f
do shell script s

If I run this code from within the Script Editor, ruby echo’s back the command line parameter:

set params to “~/test.txt”
do shell script “ruby ~/ruby.rb ” & params

The ruby code is is one line:

puts $*

This assumes that the file test.rb is in my home directory /Users/John.

You could also use the code below, depending on what you are looking for:

set params to POSIX path of “~/test.txt”
do shell script “ruby ~/ruby.rb ” & params

Not sure if this is what you are looking for…

Terminal: ruby test2.rb /Users/gauvins/Desktop/test.txt (does work)

AppleScript:

set the_params to “/Users/gauvins/Desktop/test.txt”
do shell script “ruby test2.rb ” & the_params

does not work. Including variants

Any idea?

(I am not a developper at all. Just a poor soul trying to automate a very tedious task :)