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Re:Ruby One-Liners by bdcravens on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:32PM (#20968570)
In theory, couldn’t you then compile a Rails app into a one-liner? (Seems the max line length varies, but is at least hundreds of thousands of characters in most OSes)
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Re:Ruby One-Liners by kbenson on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:17AM (#20968869)
You could, but it would be stupid to do so if it wasn't a trivial app, since nobody wants to support something like that, even if it's lifetime is measured in minutes or hours. It's a one-liner, just a pointless one.

That said, if rails has a super simple default startup that could serve a file, then it might be useful to start that as a one liner in select circumstances.

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Re:Ruby One-Liners by vinceguidry on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:58AM (#20970245)
Rails has generators for that. Invaluable for greenfielding projects in an iterative manner. Blow everything away and recreate with a single command.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html

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Re:Ruby One-Liners by vcavallo on Saturday September 14, 2019 @08:09AM (#20970288)
nobody wants to support weird looking one-liners either
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