From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T07:43:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I properly spawn an external process on OS X from Ruby?


On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Luke wrote:
> I've been struggling with this for quite a long time now (weeks?) and
> figure it's time to get some advice from folks that know what they're
> doing.
>
> Essentially, I am trying to launch an OSX GUI application (The Adobe
> Flash Player) from a ruby process, send this new process a file target
> to open, and keep a handle to this process so that I can find out when
> it exits, or even force it to exit in some circumstances.

It sounds like the 'applescript' gem might be what you are looking for.
Here is an intro:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/02/27/replacing-applescript- 
with-ruby.html

and here is the rubyforge page:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rb-appscript/

There is also Ruby OSA:
http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/


Gary Wright