How to run a ruby program from another one

Ruby
1

Hi,

How can we run a a ruby program from another ruby program. I am working
on one program where in i have to run another ruby program from it.
I am stuck here.

Please help.

Thanks,
Navya

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From: “Navya A.” [email protected]

How can we run a a ruby program from another ruby program. I am
working on one program where in i have to run another ruby program
from it.

Hi,

Usually

result = other_program

or

system(“other_program”)

or

io = IO.popen(“other_program”, “r”) # or “w” if you want to write to
it
io.gets # … read stdout from other_program
…

Regards,

Bill

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Navya A. wrote:

Hi,

How can we run a a ruby program from another ruby program. I am
working on one program where in i have to run another ruby program
from it.
I am stuck here.

The easiest is to use fork with a block:

09:51:31 [~]: ruby -e ‘fork { puts “#{$$}: child” }; puts “#{$$}:
parent”’
1912: parent
2128: child

Kind regards

robert