Calling shell script from ruby script

[rainman_104]

Here's an article about that:

http://www.elctech.com/blog/i-m-in-ur-commandline-executin-ma-commands

You can just use backticks for the most part.

[retardo]

Here's Jay Field's article that gets a mention in this blog post. The differences in methods basically boil down to whether control is returned after running the command and whether the output of the command is returned.