Command substitution not working

Trying find and replace with the following code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

file_names = [‘foo.txt’]

file_names.each do |file_name|
text = File.read(file_name)
new_contents = text.gsub(/ADMIN_URL="t3:./,
'ADMIN_URL="t3s://hostname -f.
’)

To merely print the contents of the file, use:

 puts new_contents

# To write changes to the file, use:

     File.open(file_name, "w") {|file| file.puts new_contents }
     end

But command substitution is not happening. Not sure what is the issue
here. Any help?

You need to use double quotes & string interpolation.

When you use single quotes you are saying that it should take the
characters inside in a literal way & not perform any kind of operations
with them.

Example:

text.gsub(/ADMIN_URL="t3:.*/, "ADMIN_URL=“t3:#{something}”)

I hope that helps.

  • Jesus Castello, blackbytes.info