From: Pete Higgins <pete@...>
Date: 2011-05-04T08:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyw.exe and the "system()" call

Chase Wilson wrote in post #996358:
> I'm trying to run ruby without the command terminal popping up, so I run
> it using rubyw.exe. However, in my program I need to make many calls
> using the "system()" command, and every time I do, the command terminal
> pops up for a fraction of a second and then goes away. This is very
> distracting and I was wondering if anyone knew a way around this.
>
> When I run this using ruby.exe I don't get this problem; however because
> it's ruby.exe I have the command terminal showing the whole time (which
> I don't want)

IIRC, Process.spawn [1] doesn't cause the cmd window to show when using
rubyw.exe.

1: http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Process.html#M002230

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