On: Why "require 'rubygems'" Is Wrong

[tptacek]

The /bin/sh link thing is a Linuxism --- in fact, I think it's a Debianism. On FreeBSD, Solaris, and OS X, /bin/sh is either always Bourne or always Bourne-Again.

Also, the link that is there is always to a Bourne shell variant. It's not like your system will run fine with ksh as /bin/sh.

[papercrane → tptacek]

Actually your system should work just fine with ksh as /bin/sh. KornShell is a superset of the Bourne shell.

http://www.kornshell.com/doc/faq.html

[tptacek → papercrane]

OK ksh a bad example.