starting at the top directory
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/session/
and looking at the latest version
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/session/session-2.4.0/
there are quite a few examples
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/session/session-2.4.0/sample/
and, of course, the tests
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/session/session-2.4.0/test/session.rb
the README
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/session/session-2.4.0/README
which gives the, most simple, of examples
require 'session'
sh = Session::new
stdout, stderr = sh.execute 'ls'
stdout, stderr = sh.execute 'echo 42'
what, exactly, are you trying to do?
perhaps this helps:
- sessions are persistent, you only need ONE for all commands you will run
sh = Session::new
sh.execute 'ls'
sh.execute 'date'
sh.execute 'echo 42'
- sessions return both the stdout and stderr of all commands run
stdout, stderr = sh.execute 'foobar'
- session can redirect stdout and/or stderr of you use an options hash
stdout, stderr = StringIO::new, StringIO::new
sh.execute 'foobar', 'stdout' => stdout, 'stderr' => stderr
- the exit status of each command is available as
status = sh.exit_status # or sh.status or sh.exitstatus
- a block can be given to execute to handle stdout and stderr as it arrives,
the block is passed both the stdout buffer and the stderr buffer, one of
them may be nil (empty)
sh.execute('long_running_command') do |stdout, stderr|
if stdout
log.info{ "stdout: #{ stdout }" }
end
if stderr
log.info{ "stderr: #{ stderr }" }
end
end
- sessions are thread safe in that executing a command from one thread will
not block all other threads
hth.
-a
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, csjasnoch@wisc.edu wrote:
I do not understand how Session works.
I had requested info before for thread scheduling and was pointed to
it...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/be8fe20caacf4e01/13a3edd3544c306c?lnk=st&q=csjasnoch&rnum=4&hl=en#13a3edd3544c306c
But there is no help it seems on the workings of it so I am baffled. Is
there a clear description on its usage somewhere?
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