From: shiwei zhang <shiwei1.zhang@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T20:37:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a class that can control the command window

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The following api in Ruby provides you a way to run OS cmd in cmd window:
exec(command [, arg, ...]);

Rgds,

On 11/21/06, Olivia Dou <dou_yifan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I use ruby to do testing.
> There are some scenario that look like this:
> 1) Do some navigation in the web browser and do some operation in it
> 2) run some command, especially telnet to another machine and then run
> the commands
> 3) operate the browser again
> 4) run command in the telnet window again.
>
>
> Now I use watir(Web application Testing in Ruby) to do navigation and
> operations in the IE browser, the script look like this:
> $ie.goto("http://localhost:8080")
> $ie.frame("basefrm").button(:value,"Add Report").click()
>
> And what I need exactly is a similar ruby lib that I can use to write
> the script like this style:
> cmdWindow.InputCommand("net user newUser /add")
>
> I know that I can use NET::Telnet if I want to do telnet related
> operations, and when executing the local commands, may use system(cmd),
> but I want to identify the specified command window, and run the
> following commands in that window.
>
> I wonder whether I have made the questiong clear.
>
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