From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2006-04-30T01:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: can a ruby script perform a chdir on win xp?

On 4/29/06, Park Heesob <phasis68@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >From: "Bill Guindon" <agorilla@gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> >Subject: can a ruby script perform a chdir on win xp?
> >Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:47:22 +0900
> >
> >I want to run a ruby script, and end up in a different directory.
> >Possible?
> >
> >All of the obvious approaches (%x, ``, system()) can change
> >directories, but only for their own process, once the script ends,
> >you're right were you started.
> >
> >For those who wonder 'why?'... I have a Rake task that sets up new
> >projects by building a project directory tree, and a couple of stub
> >files.  When I run it, I want to end up inside one of the project
> >dirs.
> >
> >--
> >Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
> >The best answer to most questions is "it depends".
> >
> There was the same question in ruby-talk
> and the
> answer(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/68095) is
> make test.bat like this:

I was hoping for a simpler solution, but that'll work.
Thanks much.

> @rem = '--Ruby--
> @echo off
> if "%TEMP%" == "" (
>     echo TEMP not set
>     goto exit 2>nul
> )
> SET ARG=%1
> if "%1" == "" (
>     SET ARG=nil
> )
> set TMP_BAT_FILE=%TEMP%\TMPBAT_%RANDOM%.bat
>
> :exec
> ruby -x -S Test.bat %TMP_BAT_FILE% %1 %2 %3
> goto endofruby
> @rem ';
> #!ruby
>
>
> # ruby code here
>
>
> # write out Windows shell commands to the ARGV[0] filename
> File.open(ARGV[0],"w") { |f|
>   f.puts('cd \download')
> }
> __END__
> :endofruby
> @echo off
> if exist %TMP_BAT_FILE% call %TMP_BAT_FILE%
> del %TMP_BAT_FILE% 2> nul
> set TMP_BAT_FILE=
>
> --
> Regards,
> Park Heesob
>
>
>
>


--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
The best answer to most questions is "it depends".