From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-10T20:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling another Ruby script

2009/8/10 Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com>:
> I have a lot of image processing scripts. Sometimes, rarely, they'll
> simply fail because some of the images might be bad. But, I need to know
> whether or not the images got processed or not. So, because an image
> failure can literally lead to the whole Ruby script just failing, I'd
> like to create a separate script that simply lists all of the files in
> the input directory (separately from the processing script) and checks
> to see if they all got processed or not.

I am not sure I understand the requirement from this.  Why do you need
a separate script?  What stops you from invoking a method in the same
script that does the check?

Kind regards

robert

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