From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2009-10-13T12:04:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to call an foreign program(compiled) from ruby?

The builtin system call is liekly what you need.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005971


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry [mailto:blogdriver@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 7:45 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: How to call an foreign program(compiled) from ruby?
> 
> Hi, I am trying to use some bin(like exe files under windows) file
> under linux , these program is compiled from c++ source, can be
> executed in command line . I am just wondering what is the simple way
> to call these program from with the ruby program?
> 
> i  think Rake might be the answer , I am not look things like FFI that
> can handle c source , I just need to call an program ,pass it some
> command line parameter, get some return data or some result file ,
> that's enough
> 
> i notice some gem (generally speaking) can have some inbound bin file
> in it's sub folder, I don't know how they glued together with ruby
> 
> can someone give some hint?
> 
> Thank you very much