From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-03T03:45:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to open a console and ruby a ruby script from ruby?


Logan Capaldo wrote:
> Eh, yeah but it's not ideal (You'll have to wait for X11 to start
> usually, which it may or may not do automatically, I'm not sure. i
> think it might if  opened  via the Finder but not from the command
> line).
>
> What I would do is
>
> IO.popen("osascript", "w") do |io|
>     io.puts <<APPLESCRIPT
> tell Application "Terminal"
>    activate
>    do script "#{command_here}"
> end tell
> APPLESCRIPT
> end
>
> This has the advantage of  not opening a new instance of terminal if
> one is already open, (but it will if necessary) and not requiring the
> user to a) have X11 installed and b) have it running.

Thanks. I added it to my balloon. Maybe it works?

  http://balloon.hobix.com/ballyhoo

T.