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Pipe to shell is not "awesome". Pipe to shell is dangerous and it's irresponsible to encourage it.

It's been discussed to death here before. For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430380

So it's irresponsible to pipe some script off the internet into your shell, but it's completely fine to download some random gem and just require it straight away?

I'm pretty certain that's not what the parent was implying.

Both lead to potentially running nasty code, yet people treat them differently.

Did you read all of the comment I linked to?

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