From: James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T22:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i open a terminal using ruby?

Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> Philip Rutkowski wrote:
>> if not STDIN.isatty
>>   #Open up a terminal
>> end
>> [...]
>> is there something easier?
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, on Windows ruby scripts automatically open in a 
> command
> window. And most filemanagers on unix ask you whether to open a terminal 
> when
> clicking on an executable file. So I don't think there's any need to do 
> what
> you're trying to do.
> 
> HTH,
> Sebastian

I have the same need.  I have a script that runs in a terminal right 
now, but I eventually want to make it gui (probably with Shoes) and I'll 
need an option to click a button and open a command prompt (then run a 
command in that command prompt and leave the prompt open for the user to 
use).

I haven't even begun converting to the gui part yet though, so I haven't 
put much thought into how I'm going to accomplish this.  Oh yeah, and 
this will need to be cross-platform, too, but it may just be a matter of 
writing a slightly different program for each platform.

James
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