From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T23:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Another Newbie question

On Aug 15, 2005, at 9:06 AM, LenS wrote:

> I am running Ruby 1.8.2 on a XP machine.  I have several programs
> (executables) which convert text files to a special file format.  I
> would like to have these programs run from within a ruby script and
> check the return code.
>
> In general how would you call the foo.exe program in ruby and check
> return code.

You're looking for the Kernel.system() method.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II