Ruby一般是在命令行中運行以下方式：

$ ruby [ options ] [.] [ programfile ] [ arguments ... ]

解釋器可以調用任何下列選項來控製環境和行為的解釋。

選項	描述
-a	Used with -n or -p to split each line. Check -n and -p options.
-c	Checks syntax only, without executing program.
-C dir	Changes directory before executing (equivalent to -X).
-d	Enables debug mode (equivalent to -debug).
-F pat	Specifies pat as the default separator pattern ($;) used by split.
-e prog	Specifies prog as the program from the command line. Specify multiple -e options for multiline programs.
-h	Displays an overview of command-line options.
-i [ ext]	Overwrites the file contents with program output. The original file is saved with the extension ext. If ext isn't specified, the original file is deleted.
-I dir	Adds dir as the directory for loading libraries.
-K [ kcode]	Specifies the multibyte character set code (e or E for EUC (extended Unix code); s or S for SJIS (Shift-JIS); u or U for UTF-8; and a, A, n, or N for ASCII).
-l	Enables automatic line-end processing. Chops a newline from input lines and appends a newline to output lines.
-n	Places code within an input loop (as in while gets; ... end).
-0[ octal]	Sets default record separator ($/) as an octal. Defaults to \0 if octal not specified.
-p	Places code within an input loop. Writes $_ for each iteration.
-r lib	Uses require to load lib as a library before executing.
-s	Interprets any arguments between the program name and filename arguments fitting the pattern -xxx as a switch and defines the corresponding variable.
-T [level]	Sets the level for tainting checks (1 if level not specified).
-v	Displays version and enables verbose mode
-w	Enables verbose mode. If programfile not specified, reads from STDIN.
-x [dir]	Strips text before #!ruby line. Changes directory to dir before executing if dir is specified.
-X dir	Changes directory before executing (equivalent to -C).
-y	Enables parser debug mode.
--copyright	Displays copyright notice.
--debug	Enables debug mode (equivalent to -d).
--help	Displays an overview of command-line options (equivalent to -h).
--version	Displays version.
--verbose	Enables verbose mode (equivalent to -v). Sets $VERBOSE to true
--yydebug	Enables parser debug mode (equivalent to -y).

單字符命令行選項可以結合起來。下麵兩行表達同一個意思：

$ruby -ne 'print if /Ruby/' /usr/share/bin


$ruby -n -e 'print if /Ruby/' /usr/share/bin