From: Caio Chassot <lists@...2studio.com>
Date: 2006-09-20T09:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out


On 2006-09-19, at 21:45 , Paul Lutus wrote:

>
> Could you be a bit more clear? Do you want to write a program that  
> will
> cooperate with a stream? As in:
>
> data_source | ruby-program | data_dest
>
> Yes?


No, from within a ruby program I want to call some shell command to  
act on data stored in a ruby string, so, in the ruby program,  
something like, in pseudoruby:

output = system('shell_cmd --params etc', :input => a_string)