From: Jason Burgett <jasbur@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T03:23:50+09:00
Subject: Exiting a ruby script

I'm in the process of playing around with a, application launcher
script. It's fairly far along, but I can't seem to get the script to
exit when the application is actually launched. Here's the final bit of
code:

@finalApps.each {|finalApp| if finalApp.id == runApp.to_i
                                updateRanking finalApp.name
                                symbolMatch = finalApp.command.match(/
%/)
                                if symbolMatch
                                  system(symbolMatch.pre_match)
                                else
                                  system(finalApp.command)
                                end
                              end
                  }

There's some extra stripping of the command in there. The functional
part is the internal if loop. After "system(symbolMatch.pre_match)" or
"system(finalApp.command)" the app launches properly, but in the console
the ruby script stays open until the app is closed.

Is there a way to get the ruby script to terminate immediately after the
app is successfully launched?

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