# Ruby and ClearCase

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-clearcase/65913>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-clearcase/65913 "2006-08-22T11:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-clearcase/65913/1 "2006-08-22T11:09:31Z")

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Hi Guys,

Has anyone used Ruby (or Rake) to interface with cleartool or Rational  
ClearCase? I googled the problem and found the following project at  
rubyforge which looks promising… or at least would be if there were  
any released files (or am I missing reference to a gem somewhere?)

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/basketcase/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/basketcase/)

What I’m wanting to do is to parse the output from cleartool after I’ve  
updated a snapshot in order to zip up the new files it’s loaded (seeing  
as ClearCase insists on retaining the entire directory structure when  
you load folders - I’m used to svn…).

If not are there any suggestions as to how I could go about this or  
should I just use ruby as a means to sending commands to the shell  
(system “cleartool -mkview…”) followed by somesort of STDIN/OUT? I’m  
on Windows NT4 and ClearCase 3.2 by the way…

Thanks in advance!

Gem

Regards

Gemma Cameron

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