comp.lang.ruby

Mat Schaffer

7/11/2006 4:57:00 PM

On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Une bévue wrote:

> if i do :
>
> reponse=`/Applications/FreePlayer/new/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
> rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/210 &`
>
> from a ruby script i get the reponse from the VLC app only after i've
> killed the job.
>
> howver i'd like having part of this message when VLC is playing the
> movie in order to assure evrething is right...
>
> how to get that ?
>
> --
> une bévue
>

IO::popen should do the trick.

http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_io....

-Mat