From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T06:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How to execute files or commands in ruby?

My favorite way of executing commands is
output=%x{command name}

So if you wanted the output of sar to slice and dice your machine's stats

sar_output=%x{sar}


ls_output=%x{ls} is equivalent to ls_output=`ls`, it's just easier to
read/notice in the file etc.


There are other ways of course, but they're more complex, and %x{}
should work for %90 of what you want to do

--kyle