From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-26T18:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Pass arguments to 'require'

2010/1/26 Toby Rodwell <trodwell@iee.org>:
> [You will be able to tell from what follows that I'm not a programmer -
> please bear with me!]
>
> I wrote two scripts and, for the frequent occasions I would want to run
> one then the other, a third script which was just:-
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> require '/opt/ruby/script1'
> require '/opt/ruby/script2'
>
> I would now like to pass arguments to the two scripts (for simplicity
> the same arguments in each case), andI would like to be able to do this
> via the third script eg
>
> require '/opt/ruby/script1 #{ARGV}'
> require '/opt/ruby/script2 #{ARGV}'
>
> but Ruby doesn't accept this.  For now I'm using a bash script, like so:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /opt/ruby/script1 $@
> /opt/ruby/script2 $@
>
> but, partly for "niceness" reasons, I would like to use Ruby instead.
> Any suggestions on how to do this simply?  Thanks in advance.

Use system instead of require:

system '/opt/ruby/script1', *ARGV
system '/opt/ruby/script2', *ARGV

Kind regards

robert

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