Hobo Hobo

If I try

$hobo blah

as instructed in the tutorial I get:

/bin/sh: Illegal option -S /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/hobo-1.0.1/bin/hobo:97: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

That comes from line 96 in 'hobo':

96: v=#{RUBY} -S rails -v.split[1].split(".")

Rails is installed:

$ rails -v Rails 2.3.5

$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [x86_64-linux]

The problem seems to be with the -S option:

$ ruby -S rails -v /bin/sh: Illegal option -S

-S is supposed to make ruby look for the specified script in PATH. The problem is that ruby is finding my /usr/bin/rails, a shell script to run rails. This script is installed by the ubuntu package named 'rails', a distribution of ruby on rails. This is true for maverick meerkat, which installs version 2.3.5-11 of 'rails'.

Assuming that the ruby script 'rails' is going to be the first script to turn up inside PATH seems like a big assumption.

I would suggest adding a config file that one can adapt according to one's environment.