Bash, what does this redirect command do

Question

I have a script that looks something like this:

ruby foo.rb > log.out 2> error.log < /dev/null &

In this case, i understand that STDOUT is redirecting to log.out and that 2> is redirecting the STDERR file descriptor to error.log. What's confusing me here is what comes after the STDERR redirect to error.log is the < /dev/null except. What exactly is being redirected error.log here, is it STDERR or /dev/null?

Answer 1

In this specific case the < indicates INPUT redirection. So the input to the ruby command is coming from /dev/null (i.e. no input).