From: "Berger, Daniel" Date: 2005-04-27T23:13:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexey Verkhovsky [mailto:alex@verk.info] > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:46 PM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows > > > What is the best / most reliable / most obvious way to start > and kill a child process under Windows? This child process > happens to be a Webrick application, and I don't care about > being platform-dependent in this case. require "win32/process" Process.create or Process.fork Process.kill Regards, Dan