From: Rob Pitt <rob@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T18:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Call Perl script from Ruby

Look at them gem called "session". It's nice for executing processes.

On 8 Mar 2006, at 18:13, Logan Capaldo wrote:

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> On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Steve Peters wrote:
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>> Kernel.exec should be the same as using the backquotes
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> Eeek! It  is certainly not the same as using backquotes. exec  
> _replaces_ the currently running process with its argument, he'd  
> never return to ruby to do additional processing.
>