From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T05:02:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Showing Running Processes in variable

On 12/13/07, jackster the jackle <contact@thirdorder.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the help Darren....what you proposed works but it doesn't
> print out the processes in a viewable table in rails....I think I
> somehow need to add a "\n" or a line break to the result....This might

I'm not a web guy, but... You need a <br> to generate a newline in html, right?

> be a rails question now but just in case you might know, here is what I
> have in my controller:
>
> def processes
> x=`ps -el`
> y=x.split("\n")
> y.each do |line|
> end
> return y
> end
>

The each statement does nothing there, and the return is redundant.
How about just

def processes
 `ps -el`.gsub(/\n/,"<br>")
end


-Adam