From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T02:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: best way for ruby to query subversion

On 6/13/06, Toby Catlin <toby@korfball.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am writing a script to list files that are in a subversion repository.
> I am only spiking at the moment but am having trouble.
>
> Basically i want to execute the svn command "svn list
> svn://ci.firstconsult.com/fc_codebase" and display what is returned. I
> have looked  at using system() but this simply returns true or false
> upon execution.
>
> As you can tell i am pretty new to the ruby game but i am sure there is
> a simple elegant way of doing this.
>
> thanks for any help

To capture the output, use backquotes:
results = `svn list > svn://ci.firstconsult.com/fc_codebase`

Other options explained here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/191009?190859-192450

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