From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T05:42:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie : scripting windows execute?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Fitzgibbons [mailto:Peter.Fitzgibbons@lakewoodhomes.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:34 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Newbie : scripting windows execute?
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm looking for the way to execute a program from Ruby on Windows.
> 
> Like: ntbackup, or svnadmin, or python(?!)

Same way you execute it on any platform.  You have several choices:

system
%x{}
`` (backticks)
exec
win32/open3 (3rd party)

Regards,

Dan