Berger, Daniel
4/13/2005 8:42:00 PM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Fitzgibbons [mailto:Peter.Fitzgibbons@lakewoodhomes.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:34 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Newbie : scripting windows execute?
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm looking for the way to execute a program from Ruby on Windows.
>
> Like: ntbackup, or svnadmin, or python(?!)
Same way you execute it on any platform. You have several choices:
system
%x{}
`` (backticks)
exec
win32/open3 (3rd party)
Regards,
Dan