From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T04:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Exiting a ruby script

Alle domenica 11 marzo 2007, Jason Burgett ha scritto:
> 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?

If I understand your problem correctly, you should use exec instead of system, 
which replace the ruby interpreter with the command given as argumnt.

I hope this helps

Stefano