From: "Marvin Gülker" <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-05-18T03:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: opening my files with a ruby program

Mark Kirby wrote:
> i was just wondering if i wanted my program to open a file on my pc what
> would i put for example if i wanted to use ruby irb to open media player
> thanks

You've to find out what the Media Player's executable is named and if it 
accepts the filename as a command-line argument. That said, I'm assuming 
the executable is called "mplayer" and your file "myfile.ogg".

system("mplayer", "myfile.ogg")

That blocks until the mplayer process exits, so you may want this 
instead:

#On *nix
spawn("mplayer", "myfile.ogg")
#On Windows or *nix
IO.popen("mplayer myfile.ogg")

How to find out the executables name:
Right-click on your favourite starting icon, choose something like 
"Settings", look what command it runs or what goal it points to and use 
that instead of "mplayer" in my example.

And you may think about using punctuation?

Marvin
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