From: Jeff Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T01:33:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell scripting & Windows/Linux Paths

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2009/3/10 Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com>:
>> What's the best way to launch executables with Ruby in a way that paths and
>> other command line parameters work on both Windows and Linux?
> 
> I'm not sure why you are asking for "other command line parameters"
> but for paths forward slashes as separators are OK on both platforms.

For relative paths only.  A path beginning with / will be misinterpreted 
as a command-line switch by most Windows commands.