Daniel Berger
7/19/2006 4:04:00 AM
Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to use open3 on Windows XP (one-click installer).
> I get the following error message:
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open3.rb:20:in `fork': the fork() function is
> unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError)
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open3.rb:20:in `popen3'
>
> On an earlier post to this error by somebody else about a year or so ago,
> there was a recommendation to install win32-process. I have done that but I
> keep getting this error.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
>
>
The open3 library that's included as part of Ruby's standard library
will not work on MS Windows. You'll need to install win32-open3,
available on the RAA or RubyForge.
Regards,
Dan