hello,
is it ok to do some shameless advertising for a little shell script i wrote? i've ported the rmate script to a shell script (bash). it's not my intention to replace the original ruby script, however: i needed something with as few dependencies as possible, because i do not want -- or am even unable -- to install ruby on every machine i would like to have this functionality on.
i am no expert in shell development, so my script may contain serious flaws (use with caution ;-) ). i have tested it on ubuntu 10.x, irix 6.5 (with nekoware bash) and osx. requirements are a bash with support for the "magic" device "/dev/tcp" and some standard unix tools.
feel free to fork it on github and improve it :)
https://github.com/aurora/rmate
thanks,
harald