Open an explorer window

adistarmid · October 29, 2009, 1:06pm

Does anyone know how to open a windows explorer window with Ruby?

What I want to do is to open up the folder in which I just copied some
files.

any ideas would be very helpful.

adistarmid · October 29, 2009, 1:16pm

Hi Bob,

Would this work?

system(“explorer c:”)

Rgds,
T.J.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bob S.

adistarmid · October 29, 2009, 1:42pm

Shawn A. wrote:

You could also use:
system(“start C:\somepath”)

Thanks,this works

adistarmid · October 29, 2009, 1:35pm

You could also use:
system(“start C:\somepath”)