From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T09:21:19+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i open a terminal using ruby?

On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Philip Rutkowski wrote:

> hi-
>
> i want to open up a terminal from ruby if it was not executed in one.
> so,
>
> if not STDIN.isatty
>  #Open up a terminal
> end
>
> do i have to use IO.popen? i would rather not because, i'm using linux
> but this ruby script will also be executed on windows. how do i  
> account
> for when to use "gnome-terminal" and when to use "cmd"? then, how do i
> write to that terminal window?
>

I have no idea if this will work, but it's worth a shot ...


Kernel.exec '/bin/bash', '-c', "ruby #{__FILE__} #{ARGV.join(' ')}"


Beware the infinite recursion!

Blessings,
TwP