From: 7stud -- Date: 2008-01-23T10:25:46+09:00 Subject: Re: startup delayer Junkone wrote: > hello > I run few ruby programs from windows startup. sometimes, it looks very > slow becoz xp is trying to startup a few programs. is there a way i > can delay the startup so that these ruby prog start after xp is fully > loaded. > > seede Create a ruby program whose first line is: sleep(10) After that line add lines that will execute your ruby programs, e.g. system('ruby myprog.rb') -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.