From: qubert@... (Qubert)
Date: 2003-12-09T02:32:03+09:00
Subject: Joining scripts?

I have been working on a couple of Ruby wrappers for some fortran
programs.  They are running a bit long (300+ lines), however Ruby has
been excellent in handling them.

My concerns are they are a bit too long to join together in one program,
 but they will often run together.  I want the second script to be run
independently, but if the first one is run, I want the second to be
called from within the first.

Is the best way to accomplish this to write a line in the first script:
`/usr/local/bin/secondscript.rb`

This doesn't seem to be the Ruby way since it relies on the shell, plus
I would like to send some global variables across if continued from the
first script.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Chris