From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T06:05:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby launching system apps?

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:25 PM, Dan wrote:
> I have a UNIX machine and I want a ruby app that can launch UNIX 
> commands like awk or sed...how would I implement this?

The Shell module lets you invoke UNIX commands, but bear in mind
that doing so is inefficient, not portable to non-UNIX machines,
and likely to cause thread synchronization issues.  Ruby itself can
do everything awk and sed can do without having to resort to
running external programs.

-Mark