System() and changing (path-)environment

Ruby
1

Hi!

I want to replace some shellscripts using ruby and therefore I need a
method to execute external scripts (ksh). Without rewriting a lot of
scripts, I need the possibility to execute external scripts in another
directory (as the ruby-script) but within their directory context:

path1 -> rubyscript.rb
module.rb

path2 -> shellscript.ksh
anotherscript.ksh
path3 -> last_script.ksh
found_another_one.pl

shellscript.ksh calls the other scripts using relative path statements
but when I use system(“path2/shellscript.ksh”), shellscript.ksh is
started with the rubyscript.rb-directory context and within
shellscript.ksh, the call of “./anotherscript.ksh” or
“path3/last_script.ksh” results in “script not found here you fool!”.

I tried some things like
system(“cd path2; shellscript.ksh”)
system(“ENVIRONMENTVARIABLE=something shellscript.ksh”)
but none of them worked out.

What do you suggest?

2

Hi…

Karl V. [email protected] writes:

[…]

shellscript.ksh calls the other scripts using relative path
statements but when I use system(“path2/shellscript.ksh”),
shellscript.ksh is started with the rubyscript.rb-directory context
and within shellscript.ksh, the call of “./anotherscript.ksh” or
“path3/last_script.ksh” results in “script not found here you
fool!”.

[…]

What do you suggest?

Try Dir.chdir(path) prior to the system calls, maybe?

Jim