From: "Marvin Gülker" <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-04-07T17:19:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing a program (a quick question)

Albert Schlef wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to launch a program and I don't care about its return value or
> output. I also don't want it to block my ruby program.
> 
> On Linux I do this as follows:
> 
>   if !fork
>     system("xpdf /path/to/some/file")
>     exit!
>     # ... or exec() ...
>   end
> 
> But it doesn't work on MS-Windows... it complains that fork() isn't
> implemented.
> 
> So how do I launch a program on MS-Windows without it blocking me and
> without caring about its output and return status?

You may use the win32-process gem that implements #fork as far as I 
know, or simply IO.popen:
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IO.popen("your command")
#Just go on here
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Marvin

PS: On Linux I think the #spawn method does this task best.
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