Getting a list of Processes

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How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

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ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

require 'sys/proctable'
include Sys

ProcTable.ps{ |proc_struct|
    p proc_struct
}

Regards,

Dan

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ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

one thing *not* to do: use "$$" to get PID, took me a long time to
figure out what that was when i saw it a few months back.

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ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

Use something like this... it works great:

def get_process_info()
  procs = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts:\\\\.")
  procs.InstancesOf("win32_process").each do |p|
    puts p.name.to_s.downcase
  end
end

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Daniel Berger wrote:

ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

require 'sys/proctable'
include Sys

ProcTable.ps{ |proc_struct|
    p proc_struct
}

This fails immediately for me with "no such file to load --
sys/proctable"

Does this mean that I'm missing something that is not part of the Ruby
core?

Thanks

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Brad wrote:

ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

Use something like this... it works great:

def get_process_info()
  procs = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts:\\\\.")
  procs.InstancesOf("win32_process").each do |p|
    puts p.name.to_s.downcase
  end
end

Thanks Brad...this is what I'm looking for, and it's extremely powerful!

You can replace "win32_process" with anything from the following list:

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ReggW wrote:

Daniel Berger wrote:

ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

require 'sys/proctable'
include Sys

ProcTable.ps{ |proc_struct|
    p proc_struct
}

This fails immediately for me with "no such file to load -- sys/proctable"

Does this mean that I'm missing something that is not part of the Ruby core?

Thanks

The sys-proctable package is on the RAA (http://raa.ruby-lang.org). It's not part of the stdlib.

Regards,

Dan

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ReggW wrote:

Brad wrote:

ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

Use something like this... it works great:

def get_process_info()
  procs = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts:\\\\.")
  procs.InstancesOf("win32_process").each do |p|
    puts p.name.to_s.downcase
  end
end

Thanks Brad...this is what I'm looking for, and it's extremely powerful!

Sure, no problem... also, you can list more than the process name. I
like to show the PID and the executablepath, etc. Here are other process
items you might like to examine:

class Win32_Process : CIM_Process
{
  string Caption;
  string CommandLine;
  string CreationClassName;
  datetime CreationDate;
  string CSCreationClassName;
  string CSName;
  string Description;
  string ExecutablePath;
  uint16 ExecutionState;
  string Handle;
  uint32 HandleCount;
  datetime InstallDate;
  uint64 KernelModeTime;
  uint32 MaximumWorkingSetSize;
  uint32 MinimumWorkingSetSize;
  string Name;
  string OSCreationClassName;
  string OSName;
  uint64 OtherOperationCount;
  uint64 OtherTransferCount;
  uint32 PageFaults;
  uint32 PageFileUsage;
  uint32 ParentProcessId;
  uint32 PeakPageFileUsage;
  uint64 PeakVirtualSize;
  uint32 PeakWorkingSetSize;
  uint32 Priority;
  uint64 PrivatePageCount;
  uint32 ProcessId;
  uint32 QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage;
  uint32 QuotaPagedPoolUsage;
  uint32 QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage;
  uint32 QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage;
  uint64 ReadOperationCount;
  uint64 ReadTransferCount;
  uint32 SessionId;
  string Status;
  datetime TerminationDate;
  uint32 ThreadCount;
  uint64 UserModeTime;
  uint64 VirtualSize;
  string WindowsVersion;
  uint64 WorkingSetSize;
  uint64 WriteOperationCount;
  uint64 WriteTransferCount;
};

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[...]

I don't know what you're trying to do, but here's some hackjob code to do it
using Win32API. The basic method is to create a Toolhelp32 snapshot and then
enumerate the processes using Process32First and Process32Next.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:26 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Getting a list of Processes

ReggW wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
>> ReggW wrote:
>>> How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?
>>>
>>> P.S. I'm on Windows
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>> require 'sys/proctable'
>> include Sys
>>
>> ProcTable.ps{ |proc_struct|
>> p proc_struct

---
require 'Win32API'

# some constants
TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS=0x00000002
Proc32Size=(9*4)+260 # 9 DWORDS plus a string of length MAX_PATH (default
260)

class ProcessEntry32
  attr_reader :size, :usage, :pid, :default_heap, :module_id,
:threads, :parent_pid, :base_priority, :flags, :name
  def initialize( raw_entry )
    @size=raw_entry[0..3].unpack('I').first
    @usage=raw_entry[4..7].unpack('I').first #MDSN: always zero
    @pid=raw_entry[8..11].unpack('I').first
    @default_heap=raw_entry[12..15].unpack('I').first # MSDN:
always zero
    @module_id=raw_entry[16..19].unpack('I').first # MSDN:
always zero
    @threads=raw_entry[20..23].unpack('I').first
    @parent_pid=raw_entry[24..27].unpack('I').first
    @base_priority=raw_entry[28..31].unpack('I').first
    @flags=raw_entry[32..35].unpack('I').first # MSDN: always
zero
    @name=raw_entry[36..@size-1].split("\0").first
  end
end

CreateToolhelp32Snapshot=Win32API.new("kernel32","CreateToolhelp32Snapshot",
'LL','L')
Process32First=Win32API.new("kernel32","Process32First",'LP','L')
Process32Next=Win32API.new("kernel32","Process32Next",'LP','L')

snaphandle=CreateToolhelp32Snapshot.Call(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS,0)
procentryraw="\0"*Proc32Size
procentryraw[0..3]=int2raw(Proc32Size) # need to initialise size or
Process32First will fail
# int2raw is a little helper function I wrote when first learning,
# to convert an int into a DWORD. The core is:
# ("%.8x"%unsigned_int).scan(/../).reverse.map {|b| b.hex}.pack('cccc')
# but there is bound to be a nicer way to do it, so don't copy it. :wink:

processes=
if Process32First.Call(snaphandle,procentryraw)
  processes.push(ProcessEntry32.new(procentryraw))
else
  fail "horribly"
end
while Process32Next.call(snaphandle,procentryraw) == 1
  processes.push(ProcessEntry32.new(procentryraw))
end

processes.sort {|x,y| x.parent_pid <=> y.parent_pid}.each do |process|
[do stuff]
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I'm sure that more experienced rubyists can correct my idiomatic usage.
Win32API is scarcely documented, so maybe this will come in handy for
someone at some point.

Cheers,

ben

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Ben Nagy wrote:

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From: Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:26 AM
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Subject: Re: Getting a list of Processes

ReggW wrote:

Daniel Berger wrote:

ReggW wrote:

How do you get a list of running Processes using Ruby?

P.S. I'm on Windows

Thanks

require 'sys/proctable'
include Sys

ProcTable.ps{ |proc_struct|
    p proc_struct

[...]

I don't know what you're trying to do, but here's some hackjob code to do it
using Win32API. The basic method is to create a Toolhelp32 snapshot and then
enumerate the processes using Process32First and Process32Next.

What I'm trying to do? For MS Windows, sys-proctable is a wrapper around the Win32_Process COM object via WMI. It contains quite a bit more information than a PROCESSENTRY32 struct. The downside is that it requires that your WMI service be running.

Regards,

Dan