From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2009-06-19T03:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to capture the output of a call to Kernel.system

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Wes Gamble<weyus@att.net> wrote:
> I suspect that this is an extremely simple question to answer.
>
> How do you capture the output of a system call?
>
> For example, if I do this:
>
>>> x = system("date")
> Thu Jun 18 13:00:00 CDT 2009
> => true
>>> x
> => true
>
> I would like to capture the output of the date command.  How do I do it?
>

x = `date`

if you need to capture more than just stdout, i recommend the systemu gem.

best,
michael guterl