RubyOnRails: interface to shell script

Question

Hi,

I want to make a button inside my GUI that triggers a shell script. How can I do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

you need to put

def action_name
  output = `/path/to/your/shell/script`
end

into an action that can be called from the gui. the backtick operator `` makes a system call and returns the standard output of your shell script.

UPD: This is the easy way. If you have a long running shell script you should consider using something like Delayed::Job