From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T23:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic status check

2008/11/19 The One <kioo@intothespirit.com>:
> Hi,
>
> how would idiomatic Ruby look like when it comes to status checks of
> processes? Here's a short method which checks if a PostgreSQL cluster is
> up:
>
>  def running?
>    output = `/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 status`.split
>    output[3] == "up" ? true : false
>  end
>
> What's the preferred way?

Why not just

def running?
  `/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 status`.split[3] == "up"
end

or even

def running?
  /\bup\b/ =~ `/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 status`
end

?

Kind regards

robert

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