From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T02:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: system() on windows

Hi gregarican, 

> How is this broken? the system() method works directly with the Windows
> shell. And the rake command isn't contained within the Windows shell as
> an internal command. That's why system('dir') works and system('rake')
> doesn't. This would seem logical in my opinion and I am far from a
> Microsoft fanboy :-)

On my unix shell: 
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eule@makkara:~> rake
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, 
Rakefile.rb)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.5.4/lib/rake.rb:1222:in 
`load_rakefile'
eule@makkara:~> irb
irb(main):001:0> system 'rake'
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, 
Rakefile.rb)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.5.4/lib/rake.rb:1222:in 
`load_rakefile'
=> false
---------------------------

On windows: 
---------------------------
D:\temp>rake
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, 
Rakefile.rb)
c:/unix/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1373:in 
`load_rakefile'
D:\temp>irb
irb(main):001:0> system 'rake'
=> false
---------------------------

I think I know how this happens and everything (having done quite some c 
programming on windows), its just that I think that it breaks 
expectations. I hope I could illustrate my point. 

kaspar
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