From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T05:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: stderr capture on Windows

From: "Sard Aukary" <sardaukary@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> Is it possible to capture stderr on Windows?
> 
> Backtick seems to ignore it, and
> 
> require "open3"
> stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('dir')
> 
> gives me
> 
> "the fork() function is unimplemented on this machine 
> (NotImplementedError)"

http://popen4.rubyforge.org/

or

gem install POpen4

It should present several possible versions to install.  If your
windows ruby was installed using the 1.8.4 one-click installer,
you probably want the "win32-1.8.4-VC6" version.


Regards,

Bill