From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-06-19T23:24:10+09:00
Subject: Re: browser -> command line

`cat #{__FILE__}` is a simple example of invoking the command line from Ruby.

This has been discussed a LOT.

There are libraries that make sysadmining easy with ruby.


Aur

On 6/19/07, Matt M. <goodieboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey thanks. I should have worded this much differently. At this point I'm
> forgetting about the browser. I know ruby, but don't have a lot of command
> line/IO experience with it. So my question should have been more related to
> the IO class. To be more specific, how can do you mange commands, command
> status results (successful, failed?) . The basic flow would be, su to some
> other user, if password OK, proceed to next command, display error, etc..
>
> Feel like showing me a skeleton script that could do something like that? :)
>
> I've been messing with IO.popen, Kernel.system tonight and getting some
> results.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On 6/18/07, Matt M. <goodieboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/111681
> >
> > On 6/18/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 18, 8:12 pm, "Matt M." < goodie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was hoping I could get this done with PHP 5 in a day, but it's
> > > turning out
> > > > to be a little more complicated than I thought. Maybe Ruby can do this
> > > sort
> > > > of thing easier? What I'd like to do is have a browser/web interface
> > > talk to
> > > > a command line script, that in turn does an svn update on a particular
> > > > directory. I'd also like to be able to get "real-time" output from the
> > >
> > > > script. I realize that getting real-time feedback in the browser will
> > > > require ajax. Updating from SVN is only one of the command line tasks
> > > I have
> > > > to do.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas on how I can do this?
> > >
> > > http://tryruby.hobix.com/
> > >
> > > T.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>