From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T22:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run one script from another, and capture the output

On 30.12.2009 14:06, John Smith wrote:

> 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

output = `ruby ~project/lib/distance_traveled.rb 60 2.5` :P

Or perform string interpolation, if you don't want to hardcode anything:
path = "~/project/lib/"
script = "script.rb"
args = "my args"

output = `#{path}#{script} #{args}`

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Phillip Gawlowski