From: Zakir Zakir Date: 2008-07-29T02:06:12+09:00 Subject: running ab command in cron def get_web_performance(instance_url) web_performance = -111 ab_command = "ab -n 1000 -c 5 -d -S -k http://" + instance_url + "/dbcon/index.php:80/ " puts ab_command result = IO.popen(ab_command) puts result pipe = result.readlines pipe.each do |line| puts line if line =~ /^apr_socket_recv/ #puts 111 break end if line =~ /^Time per request:/ #puts line stats = line.split #puts stats[3] web_performance = stats[3].to_i puts web_performance break end #puts line end return web_performance end if i run this code in shell. it works fine. when i run the ruby script with cron i dont get any output of this line IO.popen(ab_command). is there any thing i am missing? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.