From: N Okia <wrecklass1@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T12:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby hangs when executing a another program

Use fork and exec:

prc = fork
if prc
  puts "This is the parent process, child PID is: #{prc}"
else
  puts "child process will exec our shell command"
  exec("ssh -l root localhost /Library/FrontBase/bin/FBExec")
  puts "This line will never be seen because exec doesn't return."
end
puts "Parent continues here"