From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T22:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting a system command and letting it be?

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Farrel Lifson wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>=20
> You could just use ruby threads?
>=20

If the scripts do anything with standard input, they could hijack the
Ruby script's from the thread. Use popen, or the open('|some-script')
form instead of system?

David Vallner


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