Executing shell script from ruby script

Question

I have the following:

_shellScript = "../Dependency/test.sh"
exec 'sh #{_shellScript}'

But when I go to execute the ruby script it ends me up at a shell prompt instead of executing the script that is located within the variable _shellScript.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Answer 1

In Ruby, exec ends the Ruby process and passes the shell to the child specified. If you need to give all of test.sh's output to your console, you want system("sh #{_shellScript}"). If you need to give data and receive it through stdin and stdout, look at popen.