From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-08-20T06:29:01+09:00
Subject: Re: (How) Can you run another ruby script, from a ruby script?

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, 3lionz Wexler <3lionzw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the newbie question, but Can you run another ruby script, from
> a ruby script?
>
> For example:
> #makes new .rb script
> f = File.open('test.rb', 'w+')
> f.write("puts 'Hello world'
> sleep 5 # seconds")
> f.close

It's better to use the block form of File.open, it ensures that the
file is closed:

File.open('test.rb', 'w+') do |f|
  f.write("puts 'Hello world'")
  sleep 5 # seconds
end

> #run test.rb

load './test.rb'

> sleep 5 # seconds
> #wait 5 seconds
> end

Jesus.