From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-06-16T02:43:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Timeout lengthy external executable On Jun 15, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Ema Fuma wrote: > I'm new to ruby and RubyGems, it seemed that the installation was > succesful > but I get an error when requiring the file. I'll try to figure it how, require 'rubygems' require 'systemu' > > what I would like to ask is that if with systemu I will be able to > parse > the stdout and stderr line by line at real time (not waiting the > process > to finish to parse stdout). From the doc it's not too clear to me you cannot do this on windows safely. if you are on *nix you can easily parse in realtime using the open4 lib, which is much more powerful than systemu. however, only systemu is cross platform. cheers. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama