From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-05-05T23:46:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling ant from ruby, on windows

Hi,

2009/5/5 Marie-sofie Karlsson <marie-sofie.karlsson@bwin.org>:
> I've got a script that I want to run on both osx10.5 and windows xp,
> though I'll settle for one script each if that is not possible. My
> problem is with xp. Note that I'm a beginner to ruby, and I apologize if
> this is a stupid mistake to make, but I haven't found any help looking
> on google.
>
> On osx I have a system call like this
> system("ant build")
> which works fine on osx, but on windows I get nothing. It just returns.
> I can run system("mem") and get a printout, I've even run system("python
> --version") to check that ruby does read the path. But ant is ignored. I
> noted a similar behaviour when doing a system("bleh") call ("bleh"
> obviously NOT being a valid system call).
>
> I've tried supplying the direct path to ant, i.e.
> system("c:\antdir\bin\ant -version")
> I've made sure that the path contains the ant path (both system and user
> path), ANT_HOME is set - I can call ant just fine from the command
> line...
>
> What am I missing?
>
Try
system("ant.bat build")


Regards,

Park Heesob