Use the shell as you would any shell (bash, zsh, ksh). Lots of things don't work yet. Ruby does, which is pretty sweet. You can do either: Preference is given to ruby methods over shell commands and ...

# Shell implements an idiomatic Ruby interface for common UNIX shell commands. # It provides users the ability to execute commands with filters and pipes, # like +sh+/+csh+ by using native facilities ...

This isn’t a slight against the language though! It has continued to evolve in the duration, with the release of 1.x versions. In fact Ruby 1.9, which released in 2007, changed the language in ...

MacResearch has posted a nice two part tutorial on using Platypus, a neat utility that allows you to "create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts." This include ...