I want to make a system call in ruby, but rather than wait for the process to terminate, I want my script to continue running.
What’s the recommended way to handle this?
I want to make a system call in ruby, but rather than wait for
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I want to make a system call in ruby, but rather than wait for the process to terminate, I want my script to continue running.
What’s the recommended way to handle this?
You can use
Process.spawn.Once the process is spawned, you can either wait for the process to terminate (using
waitpid) ordetachit.