Re: Executing shell commands from Ruby... again.

Jan Friedrich wrote:
How about this:

# -- BEGIN OF EXAMPLE

# setting command, param, input, output
# ...
cmd = <<END_OF_STRING
echo off
cd path\executabledir
#{command} -S #{param} #{input} #{output}
END_OF_STRING

system(cmd)

# -- END OF EXAMPLE

That makes perfect sense, but for some reason I'm getting this error:
: can't find string "END_OF_STRING" anywhere before EOF
: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or
tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END

I'm still working on it, but this solution seems to be ideal as long as
I can get it to function properly.

Alex, you're exactly right, I certainly have no problems using variables
to construct a String. :) I was merely saying that the batch file
solution was insufficient because I can't create its content
dynamically. Thanks for your reply, I'll check out the file you
provided.

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