From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T05:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Capture stdout and stderr from another process

On Jan 30, 10:15 am, Marcus Bristav <marcus.bris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to
>
> 1. Start another (lengthy) process/command from a ruby script
> 2. Capture whatever that process is writing to stdout and stderr separately
> 3. At the samt time give feedback to the console on what is happening
> (ie I don't want all information at the end, I want it as it is
> available, maybe to a callback or so...)
> 4. Do it on windows
>
> Possible? How if so?

Look at Win32-Process (http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1720/
Process.html)
or win32-open3 (http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/128/open3.txt)