From: "G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS" Date: 2008-07-21T20:49:39+09:00 Subject: Q: Change shell for backquotes I am running the native (One-Click Installer) version of Ruby under Windows, and for various reasons, cannot run the cygwin version. Is there a way to specify that Ruby should use the cygwin bash as its shell for backquotes (and Kernel.exec, etc)? I am getting "funny" results calling PostgreSQL's psql because of quoting and cmd.