Except that he specifically asked to have the copy untransformed and placed at the model origin.
(His issues come from not correctly entering or pasting code into the console, and not first learning the basics of Ruby. Ie, given an example method, he did not paste the entire method into the console, he attempted to type it in line-by-line.)
ref topic: How to create a component with existing entities in a component by ruby?
I finally just gave him a non-method context-menu command example: