Hiding the command window when using system() on Windows

Wes Gamble
Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:10:35 -0000

I''m making a system call in Windows to a program from within my Rails
app., and when it executes, a command window opens up by default for the
duration of the program run.

I''m pretty sure that there''s a way to hide this window when I
run the
command.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Alternatively, I tried to set up a shortcut pointing to the executable
that runs with the window minimized but wasn''t able to invoke it
successfully using system(shortcut_name).

Any help is appreciated.