From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T01:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling Shell Scripts from Ruby ?

On 5/2/06, Dinesh Umanath <u_dinesh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions
>
> 1)Is it possible to call "Shell Scripts" from ruby? Say if i have a
> shell sciprt named "test.sh", how can i call this from ruby?

system( "/path/to/test.sh" )

See: ri Kernel#system

> Also if i
> can call like that,is it possible to get the output of that script
> passed back to ruby?

foo = `./test.sh`  # Don't forget to chomp what gets stored in foo.

> 2)How can i call any "Unix command" residing from a ruby program??

"Unix commands" and your scripts are the same kind of animal:

bar = `date`

>
> Thank You
> Dinesh
>

Note, if you want your script to be able to chit chat with the
external process it's running, you'll want to look at IO.popen.