From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T07:11:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a looping, low-configuration script in Ruby

I had thought that Process.fork works out of the box on windows, am I
wrong? I didn't really want to reboot to try it out. (Isn't laziness
supposed to be a virtue?) You could run the ruby interpreter under
Cygwin in windows and then I am (almost) positive it will work.


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:58:29 +0900, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
> > "crontab -e"
> 
> > $ crontab -
> > */30 * * * *    /path/to/script.rb
> 
> > Process.fork do
> > ...
> >   sleep...
> 
> This is a generally useful thing to do.
> 
> Is there any standard way to do this on windows? Is using win32/popen3
> library the preferred way? How can you write a script that will work "out of
> the box" (ie one-click-installer) on windows as well as doing the normal
> unix thing on unix?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
>