From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T00:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Call Perl script from Ruby

Nick Snels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a very basic Perl script (calls a nice CPAN library not
> available in Ruby) that prints it output to the screen. In Ruby I
> call it like: 
> 
> sql = `vendor\\sql\\sql.pl "#{@question.sql}"`
> 
> But I get the following error
> 
> Errno::ENOEXEC in Question#create
> Exec format error - vendor\converters\sql\sql.pl "select * from
> cdcol.cds"

try this:

sql = `perl vendor\\sql\\sql.pl "#{@question.sql}"`

Regards

    robert