From: matt_neuburg@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2009-08-11T09:15:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling another Ruby script

Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Can someone please tell me how you can can call out another Ruby script?
> 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. In DOS, I would use a "call"
> statement. What's the equivalent in Ruby?
> Thanks,
> Peter

Just load the other script in the usual way and call something in it.
Example:

script1.rb:

def doStuff(x)
end

script2.rb:

require 'script1'
list_of_files = # whatever
list_of_files.each do |a_file|
  begin
    doStuff(a_file)
  rescue
    puts "#{a_file} didn't process correctly"
  end
end

m.
???? m.