From: Rolando Abarca <funkaster@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T23:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Eval alternative to execute string

On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Koos Brandt wrote:

> OK, that works and thanks a lot.
>
> But I actually still have the program in memory, ie string object.  
> I can
> most certaily write it to a tempfile and do the above, but I would  
> have
> like
> system("ruby #{contents}") or system("irb #{contents}")
> Tried both, and they just go into a long process!

if you have the contents in a string, you could always open a piped  
shell:

pipe = IO.popen("ruby", "w")
pipe.write contents
pipe.close

regards,
-- 
Rolando Abarca
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