From: davy.bold@... Date: 2007-05-23T21:34:58+09:00 Subject: can I do windows shell scripting in ruby? Hello, I am totally new to ruby and interested in doing a backup job on windows in ruby. Don't know if it is possible though! I would need to get backups of Trac and Subversion with their respective admin tools like svn-admin.exe. So what the script should do is making a call like svn-admin arg1 arg2 etc. How can I do this? Thanks in advance Davy