From: Jan Friedrich <frdrch@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T06:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing shell commands from Ruby...  again.

Kevin Skrenes schrieb:
> I need to do this on a Windows machine, so a typical batch file might be
> constructed like this:
> 
>   echo off
>   cd path\executabledir
>   <command> -S <param> <input> <output>
> 
> where anything in <> needs to be dynamically populated.
How about this:

# -- BEGIN OF EXAMPLE

# setting command, param, input, output
# ...
cmd = <<END_OF_STRING
echo off
cd path\executabledir
#{command} -S #{param} #{input} #{output}
END_OF_STRING

system(cmd)

# -- END OF EXAMPLE


regards
Jan