From: Kevin Jackson <foamdino@...>
Date: 2007-06-09T18:49:12+09:00
Subject: using ` and the bash source command

Hi all,

I have this code :
`source ~/.bash_profile`

As part of a script.  But when this line executes I get a sh: command
not found.  This looks to me like ruby's ` is running /bin/sh instead
of /bin/bash

So a bit of searching on google and I discover that it's possible to
do something like:
%x{/bin/bash -c "source ~/.bash_profile;"}

This doesn't fail with the command not found, but it doesn't actually
source the file - so it's fairly useless.

Does anyone have a workaround for getting ruby to exec the bash source
command correctly?  I think I've tried every combination in the docs
and nothing seems to work.

Thanks,
Kev