From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-04-12T14:28:03+09:00
Subject: Re: exec with environment?

Ian Peters-campbell wrote:
> I am running a Ruby script which needs to set some environment variables
> and then execute non-Ruby programs through Linux and pass the modified
> environment to the new processes.  It doesn't look as though I can do
> this with 'exec', is there a way to do this with existing Ruby
> functionality?

This doesn't do what you want?

ENV['foo'] = 'bar'
exec "echo $foo" # ==> bar

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