From: "Thibaut Barrère" <thibaut.barrere@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T01:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something built-in for this ?

> begin
>   system(cmd)
> rescue NameError => e
>   puts e
> end
>
> ... Does that help you ?

hum -- not sure actually. Is system() supposed to raise a NameError ?
I didn't see this mentioned in the docs.

I searched further yet could not find anything like launch() so far.

-- Thibaut