From: John Smith <ks1911shooter@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T22:06:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run one script from another, and capture the output

Gary Wright wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:11 PM, John Smith wrote:
> 
>> How would I run the above execution from inside another script, and
>> capture the output above (the 150 miles portion at least)?
> 
> 
> output = `ruby distance_traveled.rb 60 2.5`
> 
> The backticks cause the standard output of the command to be captured 
> and stored in a Ruby string.
> 
> 
> Gary Wright

Thanks so much for that!

One more quick question. If distance_traveled.rb sits in a different 
directory than the current script that's calling it, how would I specify 
it? For example, say it is in ~project/lib/distance_traveled.rb

Thanks again!
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