Running Ruby executable in a world-writable directory

Just now I needed to run a Ruby executable that was located in a world-writable directory.

Normally this is something that you never want to do - anyone could put an executable into your directory  and/or replace your script with their own. BUT sometimes you just need to do this - in my case I am in a secure environment, working with collaborators but we have not been able to get IT to set us up as a 'group' as yet.

The problem is that Ruby will issue a warning about "Insecure world writable directory" every time you run your script.

The real solution is to get past the need for those permissions. But in the short term I just want to get rid of the warnings.

There are two options:

You can pass the -W0 (that's a zero) flag to ruby
$ ruby -W0

But I use this 'hash bang' line at the start of all my scripts:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
and I can't figure out how to pass the flag correctly in this case

The alternative is to add this line right after the hash bang line
$VERBOSE = nil

That does work. It clearly silences any other warnings that I might want to see but at least it gets me past my current issue.

Compiling Ruby 1.9.3 from source

I had to install Ruby 1.9.3 from source today.

Ruby comes with a load of documentation but I never use it. It's just easier to look it up on the web. But creating and installing that documentation takes a huge amount of time.

To disable it pass this option to 'configure'
$ ./configure --disable-install-doc

The other issue I had to deal with was that libyaml was installed in a non-standard location. With some libraries you can pass a specific option to 'configure' but not here... Instead you have to add the include and lib directories to Environment variables, like this:
$ export CPPFLAGS="-I/my/location/include"
$ export LDFLAGS="-L/my/location/lib"

'configure' will pick those up without any additional arguments.