From: Steve Pauly <stevepauly@...>
Date: 2010-07-02T10:56:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a shell command from ruby

Brian Buckley wrote:
>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>> script1=["touch ~/ruby/f1;touch ~/ruby/f2"]    #addl array elements to
>> be added
>> puts script1[0].split(/;/) do |k|
>>   puts k
>>   system(k)
>> end
>> ----
> 
> 
>> The output from "puts k" looks good.
> 
> Your block is not being called. I think the output you are seeing the is 
> from the first "puts", not the "puts" inside the block.
> 
> You need to call "each" on the Array returned by split, like this:
> 
> puts script1[0].split(/;/).each do |k|
>   puts k
>   system(k)
> end
> 
> --Brian

Brian, you were right.

Stupid of me not to think of the .each method.

Thank you!
Steve.

revised script:

script1=["touch /home/holocene/ruby/f1;touch /home/holocene/ruby/f2"]
script1.length.times do |cnt|
  puts "script1 item #{cnt}"
  script1[0].split(/;/).each do |k|
    puts k
    system(k)
  end

end

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