Capturing system console information

Rails
1

Hello,

I have a simple web application that executes a .exe program through my
controller. The exe program processes some information and displays an
output on the script/server output. Is it possible to catch this
information from the console and output it back to the user?

I have tried the following but it does not seem to work:

puts << system.readlines(separator=$/)

Regards,
McKenzie.

2

Ryan M. wrote:

Regards,
McKenzie.

Perhaps the backtick method would work better? I found that system()
calls sometimes returned random data at the end of the result.

output = /path/to/app/to/execute
puts output

worked a lot better for my case.

HTH

Matt

3

Matt H. wrote:

Ryan M. wrote:

Regards,
McKenzie.

Perhaps the backtick method would work better? I found that system()
calls sometimes returned random data at the end of the result.

output = /path/to/app/to/execute
puts output

worked a lot better for my case.

HTH

Matt

Hi Matt,

I also need to input some parameters with the program to but I dont
think the backtick method supports that? This is what I have so far…

if system("“E:\rails\public\progs\web.exe”
“E:\rails\public\progs\temp.txt” set=“10"”)
flash[:notice]= “Console output here”
end

Thanks