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Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by walski »

(slight ot, sorry!) This brings back great memories of one of the best assignment from my college time: We had an "Agile web development" course (~2007) with a precursory Ruby 101 workshop as well as a pre-course assignment to "create a shell in Ruby". It was such a joy to hack on this and learn that way. It was clearly wayyy too vast of a task to ever _complete_ it, but I learned so much Ruby there and couldn't stop working on the project. Thanks Carsten Bormann for being a great teacher!

And thanks op for reminding me of this :)

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by mteam88 »

pelasaco wrote: post #15
revskill wrote: post #6

Need windows version. Windows Terminal is the worst thing in the world.

WSL and you just can completely avoid Windows Terminal if you work on Windows but not with Windows. I.e I do devops, linux development in my Windows Box running an openSUSE box in WSL. It integrates pretty well with visual code for instance.

Or dual boot (:

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by gerrit »

walski wrote: post #21

(slight ot, sorry!) This brings back great memories of one of the best assignment from my college time: We had an "Agile web development" course (~2007) with a precursory Ruby 101 workshop as well as a pre-course assignment to "create a shell in Ruby". It was such a joy to hack on this and learn that way. It was clearly wayyy too vast of a task to ever _complete_ it, but I learned so much Ruby there and couldn't stop…

Sat in that same course. Nice to see Bremen people here

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by geir_isene »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #18
_joel wrote: post #14

Not great naming imho, this has been around for 40 years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell

rbsh would be very recognizable for ruby users (rb being the file extension commonly used)

rbsh is actually a cool idea. I just might adopt that.

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by KerrAvon »

RGBCube wrote: post #20

How fast(or slow...) is the startup time?

Haven’t tried this project yet, but the Ruby interpreter itself starts up very quickly, so I’d expect it to be essentially instant on modern hardware.

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by pelasaco »

revskill wrote: post #19
pelasaco wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WSL and you just can completely avoid Windows Terminal if you work on Windows but not with Windows. I.e I do devops, linux development in my Windows Box running an openSUSE box in WSL. It integrates pretty well with visual code for instance.

Sadly, to use WSL effectively, you need to configure high enough Disk and Memory, the issue is WSL doesn't know how to clean up deleted volume.

I'm using it since WSL1 and never had problem with that...

Re: Rsh: Ruby SHell

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Post by ninefathom »

_joel wrote: post #14

Not great naming imho, this has been around for 40 years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell

Seconded. Naming an interactive language shell after ssh's older, insecure cousin just seems like begging for trouble.

I'm imagining some auditor seeing an "rsh" binary on a Linux system and dinging the system on it, and weeks of back and forth emails and meetings required to determine that, no, in fact, this is not remote shell, it's Ruby shell, and it's actually not a valid audit finding.

And, of course, that's completely omitting the binary collision issue because frankly anybody with "old" rsh installed deserves whatever pain they get.

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