Will changing the bin files in a Rails project affect how its implemented on other devices?

Asked Jun 06 '16 at 02:05

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I am beginning to contribute to a Rails/Heroku project that, and I was cloning it to my machine running linux Mint. As I was getting it up and running locally I encountered similar issues as in this question, namely the error

/usr/bin/env: ruby.exe: No such file or directory

when trying to start my local server. This was an easy fix, just changed "ruby.exe" to just "ruby" in bin/bundle bin/rails and bin/rake but I'm worried about pushing back to github, since the project automatically hosts whatever is on the remote repo.

Am I going to cause issues with the hosted version if I push my changes to the bin files? If I am is the most appropriate solution adding the bin files to .gitignore since the changes are only necessary on my machine? Most of the other contributors are using OSX or Windows.

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asked Jun 06 '16 at 02:05

Geoff McLennan

rather than changing the bin files (for which we cannot guess what might happen) why not create an `alias` for `ruby.exe` ? – Taryn East Jun 06 '16 at 02:12
I tried creating an alias: alias ruby.exe="ruby" With no luck. – Geoff McLennan Jun 06 '16 at 02:40
Darn. what about a symlink ? – Taryn East Jun 06 '16 at 02:46
I tried ln -s ruby ruby.exe again with no luck. I think what I will do is just tell git to assume these files are unchanged, so that I can push any other changes without worrying about making a mess with any of the bin files – Geoff McLennan Jun 06 '16 at 02:58

Will changing the bin files in a Rails project affect how its implemented on other devices?

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