The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix

Re:The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix by bensummers on Sunday April 29, 2012 @05:37AM (#3905593)

Pipe to shell is not "awesome". Pipe to shell is dangerous and it's irresponsible to encourage it.

It's been discussed to death here before. For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430380

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Re:The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix by charliesome on Sunday April 29, 2012 @06:46AM (#3905672)

So it's irresponsible to pipe some script off the internet into your shell, but it's completely fine to download some random gem and just require it straight away?

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Re:The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix by lubutu on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:03AM (#3905688)

I'm pretty certain that's not what the parent was implying.

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Re:The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix by charliesome on Sunday April 29, 2012 @08:15AM (#3905807)

Both lead to potentially running nasty code, yet people treat them differently.

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Re:The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix by bensummers on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:20PM (#3906300)

Did you read all of the comment I linked to?

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