james.d.masters
6/4/2007 7:26:00 PM
On Jun 4, 10:47 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Yingqi Tang wrote:
> > When I can system("...") in ruby, I got either true or false returned,
> > but how do I capture the information that being printed out in console
> > when the cmd is being executed?
>
> By using backticks or %x{} instead of system.
>
> --
> Ist so, weil ist so
> Bleibt so, weil war so
Another option besides backticks or %x{} is to use IO#popen. This is
useful if you want to read output in the same manner as you would with
a file.