From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T20:57:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help with rubyw

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Rasmus Rasmussen <yacrumb@yahoo.se> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to run ruby setup script from lots of testclasses (NUnit)
> so I need to hide the console window. But starting process from C# with
> rubyw only returns error.
>
> Then I try this helloworld-like test:
>
>>echo sleep(5) > tst.rb
>>ruby tst.rb
> (sleeps 5 secs)
>
>>rubyw tst.rb
> (terminates immediately)
>
> Why no sleep with rubyw?
Oh it sleeps just fine, but in a background process, this is the same as typing
sleep 5 &
in a bash shell, does not make lot's of sense.
HTH
Robert
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