Ruby Command

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Throughout these tutorials, we’ve been using the tinker command. There’s another way to execute code on-the-fly in Ares, and that’s the ruby command. This lets you execute single-line ruby code snippets from the MU client. You can’t do error checking or complex logic in the ruby command, but it’s handy for quick tasks.

Try It!

Type this into your MU client:

ruby "Your name is #{enactor.name}"

Notes

A couple notes:

The ruby command gives you access to enactor the same way the tinker command does.
Ruby automatically emits the results of the command back to you, so you don’t need to add a client.emit the way you did in the tinker commands.
If your ruby code doesn’t result in a string to emit, you might see garbage back.

For example:

ruby Character.named("Faraday")

Will output something like:

#<AresMUSH::Character:0x00007fa373c81e78>

This is because you can’t emit an entire character object.

This would work just fine though, because ‘name’ is a string:

ruby Character.named("Faraday").name

This article is part of the Code Quickstart tutorial.