From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:35:34 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] patch: execute shell command
In-Reply-To: <1194843828-sup-7014@timmy>
References: <1194536747-sup-4081@timmy> <1194840554-sup-9310@south>
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Message-ID: <1194881637-sup-5906@tomsk>

On 12.11.2007, Eyal Oren wrote:
> > I like this functionality but the session gem seems like it's overkill
> > here. Is there a reason to use it instead of just something like
> >   output = `#{cmd}`
> I also wanted to catch error output, to find out if an unexisting command was 
> invoked, and I didn't know how to do that with ``?

Shouldnt this be possible with open3? The only problem is that open3
is unix only (in std ruby). I think there is a win32 open3 gem though.

Marcus