From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T23:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting a system command and letting it be?

On 10/11/06, darenbell@gmail.com <darenbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a web service that accepts a call to initiate a few
> self-contained scripts on a RHEL4 webserver.  Being new to Ruby, I
> can't seem to find any documentation on how I could kick off the
> scripts without having the parent script wait on them to complete.
> Obviously, I don't need arguments our output back from the scripts, so
> all I'm concerned with is that they start and the parent can end
> without killing them.
>
> What's the best way to do this?
>
>
>

You could just use ruby threads?

Farrel