From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T12:25:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling Shell Scripts from Ruby ?


On May 2, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Dinesh Umanath wrote:

> Hi Edwin,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  When you say output = `Unix command`, i did  
> not
> get about how exactly to use it, is it possible to give a simple  
> sample
> examples if you have with you which calls a script ??
>
> Oh..so u mean from shell script we can't get the return values to  
> ruby.
> My requirement is that from "Rails" through the web i will call some
> shell script and  finally the script should return me a "String"  
> value.
> is that not possible from ruby?

type this in irb: x = `ls`

Elliot