From: "t3ch.dude" <t3ch.dude@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T03:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: quoting problem with %x

On Jan 22, 7:57 pm, Will Parsons <oud...@nodomain.invalid> wrote:
> I'm having aprobleminvoking external programs from ruby that are passed
> arguments containing spaces.  I have a program that I would invoke outside
> of ruby like:
>
>   progname -o 'something with spaces'
>
> How do I get the output from this within ruby?  If I run:

Have you tried:

system("progname", "-o", "'something with spaces'")

or something similar?

-t3ch.dude