# Launchy 0.2.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-2-0-released/111886>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 12, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-2-0-released/111886 "2007-08-12T23:34:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-2-0-released/111886/1 "2007-08-12T23:34:37Z")

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As promised, here’s a new release of launchy. For those of you who said  
the previous version didn’t work for you please test this out and let me  
know or submit the bugs on rubyforge[1]. I incorporated most of the  
feedback from the previous version so I have good hopes that this one  
will work for more folks.

If the gem mirrors aren’t up to date you may also install via:

```
gem install launchy --source http://www.copiousfreetime.org/gems

```

launchy version 0.2.0 has been released.

[http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/launchy/](http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/launchy/)

Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a  
fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser,  
email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be  
launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common  
approach to launching external application from within ruby programs.

{{ Changelog for Version 0.2.0 }}

=== Version 0.2.0 - 2007-08-11

- rework browser finding
- manual override with LAUNCHY\_BROWSER environment variable
- on \*nix use desktop application launcher with fallback to list of  
browsers
- On windows, switch to ‘start’ command and remove dependency on  
win32-process
- removed win32 gem
- Add debug output by setting LAUNCHY\_DEBUG environment variable to  
‘true’

enjoy,

-jeremy

[1] - [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group\_id=3707&atid=14326](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3707&atid=14326)

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-2-0-released/111886/2 "2007-08-15T13:57:21Z")

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Le dimanche 12 août 2007 23:33, Jeremy H. a écrit :

> As promised, here’s a new release of launchy. For those of you who said  
> the previous version didn’t work for you please test this out and let me  
> know or submit the bugs on rubyforge[1].

Ok, works here with KDE on Linux : it opens a new tab in konqueror

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-2-0-released/111886/3 "2007-08-15T18:05:07Z")

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:56:32PM +0900, Olivier R. wrote:

> Le dimanche 12 ao?t 2007 23:33, Jeremy H. a ?crit?:
> 
> > As promised, here’s a new release of launchy. For those of you who said  
> > the previous version didn’t work for you please test this out and let me  
> > know or submit the bugs on rubyforge[1].
> 
> Ok, works here with KDE on Linux : it opens a new tab in konqueror

Perfect. Glad that it works for you.

enjoy,

-jeremy