From: Afaque Ahmad <ahmads_786@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T21:16:22+09:00
Subject: setting environment variables using windows batch file

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Dear Ruby Members,
 
 I am having problems setting and reading enviroment variables from a windows batch file.
 
This is what I am doing, I have some batch file xyz.bat where I am setting some enviroment
variable 
 
SET ENV_VAR1 = "something"
SET ENV_VAR2 = "foo"
 
I wish to run the batch file from ruby script , wherein which I can use these environment variables within the ruby file itself. I use the following command to run the batch file
 
system("xyz.bat")
 
But even after doing this , the environment variables ENV_VAR1 and ENV_VAR2 don't get set.
I even tried using 
      exec("xyz.bat")
      system("cmd /k xyz.bat")
 
I would really appreciate it if anybody could tell me what I am doing wrong here.
 
Regards,
   Afaque   





		
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