OK, I got it.

Through some troubleshooting and setting up abbreviations that did things like running ruby --version I discovered that I've got both ruby 1.8 and ruby 1.9 on my system.

My own command line defaulted to 1.9, but TextExpander was finding 1.8. I put the correct path on the ruby command in the shebang and it works.

Also, -rjcode caused failure, so I had to remove that too. The way I understand it, that's now included in 1.9.

Yeah, it's all in the snippet, it's set to shell type.

The chirp is my "alert sound". So something's wrong. I'm hoping there's some sort of error log hidden somewhere.

I've emailed them. We'll see what they say.

Hi Brett,

I've also lost well over a productive hour getting ruby, gems, etc. upgraded on my system so I could run this script. It didn't like that I updated to Snow Leopard since installing Ruby.

In the end, this script runs well from the command line. Very cool.

However when I put it in textexpander, I get no output. Just a chirp.

I know you're not textexpander tech support, but any quick thoughts? Some other ruby scripts do work, like your ,,sub and ,,enc scripts.

thanks.