From: Santhosh Kattissery <santhosh214@...>
Date: 2010-06-09T04:53:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Errno::ENOEXEC

Thanks for you reply.
And yes, I am trying to execute a command.
puts `ls`, works for me.
install bundle works for me from command line.
But I want to execute it from ruby code.

I did not understand "then that command needs to be installed"

Alex S. wrote:
> (Apologies if this is a dupe... I sent a reply email to the ML but 
> didn't see it go through).
> 
> Any reason you're using `backtics` around your string?  If you're just
> trying to print to console, use 'single' or "double" quotes.  If you're
> trying to execute an external command, then that command needs to be
> installed.
> 
> Try it like this to just print to console:
> 
>>puts 'bundle install'  #using single quotes
> 
> When I use backtics on my linux machine, this lists the contents of the
> current working directory:
> 
>>puts `ls`      #using backtics indicates system command to execute
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Alex
> 
> 
> Santhosh Kattissery wrote:
>> I have the following line in my code:
>> puts `bundle install`
>> 
>> This gives me the following error:
>> C:/../<abc>.rb:11:in ``': Exec format error - bundle install
>> (Errno::ENOEXEC)
>> 
>> Im using a windows machine. What could be wrong?
>> Have anyone faced this issue?

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