From: William Stevens <wfspoet@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T05:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: can a ruby script perform a chdir on win xp?

Hi,
A simple but not so pleasing method is:

Dir::chdir("c:\\")
system("cmd")

this will spawn a new command line with the inherited path.

Bill Stevens

Bill Guindon wrote:
> 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.


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