From: "Rashmi Ranjan p." <rrparida@...>
Date: 2011-08-25T14:18:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I write text to a notepad and save the file through

Drew Olson wrote in post #648910:
> Anukul Singhal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After invoking notepad through ruby, I wanted to know if I could type
>> some text in that notepad (which was just invoked using `notepad`) and
>> save it using a ruby code.
>>
>> Can anyone please help me with the ruby code in this regard?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anukul
>
> Do you really need to invoke notepad? Why not just write the text to the
> file directly?
>
> File.open('foo.txt','w') do |out|
>   out << 'some text to write to the file, blah blah blah'
> end

Here, after creating the files, you can launch/open this file by using 
the below command
system('start foo.txt')

Hope it helps

Thanks
RRP

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.