From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-05-24T21:44:08+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent scripts, system calls on Windows and Linux


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Tobias Reif wrote:

> I'd like to have a way more platform independent system call mechanism,
> in Ruby itself or in the std lib, which returns either nil, an Error
> object of some sort, or a Stdout object of some kind, so I can simply
> write something like

Check IO.popen (builtin), and open3.rb (standard library). They both do
what you want, with IO.popen providin stdin & stdout to a separate process,
and open3.rb providing stderr as well.

 -- Nikodemus