From: Lance Sanchez <lance.sanchez@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T05:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in windows

when i run this in production it seems to die while trying to read
from the Output IO object, if its

io_in, io_out, io_err = Open3.popen('some command with parameters')

out = io_out.read (hangs here forever if the command should have worked)

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:11 AM, lance.sanchez@gmail.com
<lance.sanchez@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks, thats giving me the io objects back.
>
>  On Mar 2, 1:49 am, "Jano Svitok" <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:24 AM, lance.sanc...@gmail.com
>
>
> >
>  > <lance.sanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > i'm trying to script administrative tasks in windows and i'm really
>  > >  not feeling the ruby love, does anyone have some suggestions on a way
>  > >  of running commands and catching STDERR in windows?
>  >
>  > Try:
>  > 1. win32-open3 gem
>  > 2. use Kernel#system or `` (backticks) and redirect output to a file
>  > or pipe. Windows from 2000 up supports stderr
>  > redirection ( command 2> err.txt )
>
>