From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T01:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: windows - How to propagate environment variables to the system

Armin wrote:

> I would like to write a setup script that sets
> some variables for the entire system like an installer.
> When a new command prompt is opened, the values are now.



You don't have to dig that deep in order to accomplish. This a quick
way to get this done is through using the Ruby built-in ENV method. For
example to create a new environmental variable called 'foo' and assign
it the value 'bar' just issue the following:

ENV['foo']='bar'

then you can check the value by either issuing:

ENV['foo']

or else using the system method, passing along the set command:

system('set foo')

Does this help?