From: lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T22:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: exec (new process or new thread?) to continue

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM, List.rb <list.rb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:19 AM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> The exec method seems to hold up the process
>> so
>>
>> exec(loader_app)
>> puts "we got here"
>>
>> Will not print "we got here" till I close the app.
>
> IO.popen(an_exe)
>

And with ruby 1.9, Kernel.spawn:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Kernel.html#M006071

Cheers,
lasitha.