Re: Mongrel crashes while running ''exec'' through ruby

Frederick Cheung
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:47 -0000

On Jun 11, 8:31 am, Tahir Rauf
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
> > On Jun 11, 7:54 am, Tahir Rauf
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi All,
>
> >> I have a ruby on rails application and in the controller, I try to
run a
> >> shell script using exec command
>
> > You know that the whole point of the exec command is that it replaces
> > the current process with what you tell it to run? You may be more
> > interested in ``, system or things like IO.popen
>
> > Fred
>
> Thanks Fred, As far as i know system is for windows, and Currently my
> application is deployed on linux.

That''s not true

>
> Can you tell me more about IO.popen ?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html#M002267

Fred

>
> I just need to run a script and want the control back to the same
> process..
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