Newbie : scripting windows execute?

Thanks. I didn't even know those. See. Newbie.

Peter J. Fitzgibbons
Applications Manager
Lakewood Homes - "The American Dream Builder"(r)
Peter.Fitzgibbons@Lakewoodhomes.net
(847) 884-8800

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-----Original Message-----
From: Berger, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Berger@qwest.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:42 PM
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Fitzgibbons [mailto:Peter.Fitzgibbons@lakewoodhomes.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:34 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Newbie : scripting windows execute?

Hello All,

I'm looking for the way to execute a program from Ruby on Windows.

Like: ntbackup, or svnadmin, or python(?!)

Same way you execute it on any platform. You have several choices:

system
%x{}
`` (backticks)
exec
win32/open3 (3rd party)

Regards,

Dan