From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T05:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: Change shell for backquotes

Hi,

At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:49:39 +0900,
G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS wrote in [ruby-talk:308709]:
> 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.

# What a challenger you are. :)

Try setting RUBYSHELL to the path to bash.exe in Windows style.

-- 
Nobu Nakada