From: anansi <kazaam@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T21:45:01+09:00
Subject: Re: can I do windows shell scripting in ruby?

davy.bold@googlemail.com wrote:
> 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
> 

of course you can :) exec should be the right command for you: 
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.exec

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