From: Daniela Marchena Date: 2013-01-25T07:47:04+09:00 Subject: How to create a continuous process with some cmd calls using ruby rake in Windows? I'm trying to run some windows command line calls in the same system process using a Ruby Rake task. I need to find the way to do the calls correctly and this calls can't be dependent on each other. I know that the 'fork' function can be a solution, but it doesn't work in Windows. I tried with other functions, like IO.POPEN and Process.spawn and I didn't find a real solution. I'm working with Ruby 1.9.3 in windows XP. task :CmdTest,:value do |t, args| value=args.value.to_s begin $cmd<<("set MYVAR=#{value}") $cmd<<("set MYVAR") $cmd<<("exit") rescue Exception => e puts e.message end end task :CmdTest3 do IO.popen("cmd", "r+") do |io| th = Thread.new(io) do |chan| chan.each {|line| puts line} end $cmd.each do |f| io.puts f end io.close_write th.join end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.