system() on windows
snacktime
false on windows.
This works fine and returns true:
res = system('dir')
This returns false with $? being nil:
res = system('rake')
if I just run rake at the command line it works fine. I'm sure this
is something simple, but windows is not a development environment I am
used to.
Chris
Lyndon Samson
>
> I'm trying to figure out why a particular system command is returning
> false on windows.
>
> This works fine and returns true:
>
> res = system('dir')
>
> This returns false with $? being nil:
>
> res = system('rake')
>
Windows return codes where never as standardised as Unix. Plus dir is part
of the command shell, not a standalone exec.
Damphyr
class at the end of this message (Ara's solution for grabbing the output
of stderr and stdout on windows with a broken popen3 was better -
giving you separate stderr und stdout - but this one has benchmarking
too :) ).
I get
false
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb,
Rakefile.rb)
d:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1373:in
`load_rakefile'
on a directory without a rakefile, which is correct :).
system("rake") for the same directory gives a $? of 256.
--------
class ExecCmd
attr_reader :output,:cmd,:exec_time
#When a block is given, the command runs before yielding
def initialize cmd
@cmd=cmd
@cmd_run=cmd+" 2>&1" unless cmd=~/2>&1/
if block_given?
run
yield self
end
end
#Runs the command
def run
t1=Time.now
IO.popen(@cmd_run){|f|
@output=f.read
@process=Process.waitpid2(f.pid)[1]
}
@exec_time=Time.now-t1
end
#Returns false if the command hasn't been executed yet
def run?
return false unless @process
return true
end
#Returns the exit code for the command. Runs the command if it hasn't
run yet.
def exitcode
run unless @process
@process.exitstatus
end
#Returns true if the command was succesfull.
#
#Will return false if the command hasn't been executed
def success?
return @process.success? if @process
return false
end
end
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snacktime
> Try cmd=ExecCmd.new("rake");puts cmd.success?;puts cmd.output using the
> class at the end of this message (Ara's solution for grabbing the output
> of stderr and stdout on windows with a broken popen3 was better -
> giving you separate stderr und stdout - but this one has benchmarking
> too :) ).
In initialize block_given? is returning false for me. Any idea why?
Chris
Kaspar Schiess
news:1f060c4c0511241320g4bf...@mail.gmail.com by
snacktime)
> res = system('rake')
I call ruby scripts by
system('cmd.exe /c rake')
Sadly, system seems to be broken many ways on windows.
kaspar
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Damphyr
expect at quarter to two?).
You can do it like this:
ExecCmd.new("rake"){|cmd|
puts cmd.success?
puts cmd.output
}
or like this:
cmd=ExecCmd.new("rake")
cmd.run
puts cmd.success?
puts cmd.output
But a nice sideeffect of this implementation was
cmd1=ExecCmd.new("blabla")
cmd2=ExecCmd.new("blabla2")
cmd3=ExecCmd.new("blabla3")
[cmd1,cmd2,cmd3].each{|cmd|
cmd.run
#do stuff with it
}
And afterwards you also have a crude benchmark for each command i.e. :)
[cmd1,cmd2,cmd3]each{|cmd|
if cmd.run?
status="succeeded"
status="failed" unless cmd.success?
puts "#{cmd.cmd} #{status} in #{cmd.exec_time}s"
puts "Log:\n#{cmd.output}" unless cmd.success?
else
puts "#{cmd.cmd} was not executed"
gregarican
> I call ruby scripts by
> system('cmd.exe /c rake')
>
> Sadly, system seems to be broken many ways on windows.
>
>
> kaspar
How is this broken? the system() method works directly with the Windows
shell. And the rake command isn't contained within the Windows shell as
an internal command. That's why system('dir') works and system('rake')
doesn't. This would seem logical in my opinion and I am far from a
Microsoft fanboy :-)
Kaspar Schiess
> How is this broken? the system() method works directly with the Windows
> shell. And the rake command isn't contained within the Windows shell as
> an internal command. That's why system('dir') works and system('rake')
> doesn't. This would seem logical in my opinion and I am far from a
> Microsoft fanboy :-)
On my unix shell:
--------------------------
eule@makkara:~> rake
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb,
Rakefile.rb)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.5.4/lib/rake.rb:1222:in
`load_rakefile'
eule@makkara:~> irb
irb(main):001:0> system 'rake'
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb,
Rakefile.rb)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.5.4/lib/rake.rb:1222:in
`load_rakefile'
=> false
---------------------------
On windows:
---------------------------
D:\temp>rake
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb,
Rakefile.rb)
c:/unix/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1373:in
`load_rakefile'
D:\temp>irb
irb(main):001:0> system 'rake'
=> false
---------------------------
I think I know how this happens and everything (having done quite some c
programming on windows), its just that I think that it breaks
expectations. I hope I could illustrate my point.
snacktime
> snacktime wrote:
> > On 11/24/05, Damphyr <dam...@freemail.gr> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Try cmd=ExecCmd.new("rake");puts cmd.success?;puts cmd.output using the
> >>class at the end of this message (Ara's solution for grabbing the output
> >> of stderr and stdout on windows with a broken popen3 was better -
> >>giving you separate stderr und stdout - but this one has benchmarking
> >>too :) ).
> >
> >
> > In initialize block_given? is returning false for me. Any idea why?
> >
> Did you pass a block? Actually I missed cmd.run in there (what do you
> expect at quarter to two?).
>
Ya I shouldn't be up this late either. No I didn't pass the block:)
Chris
Kaspar Schiess
Looks like as soon as you have a pipe in the command, cmd.exe is invoked
correctly: system 'echo | rails'. I came up with this after digging trough
to the actual implementation and nosing around for quite a time ;) .. its
of course nonsensical.
k
nobuyoshi nakada
At Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:21:03 +0900,
snacktime wrote in [ruby-talk:167407]:
> I'm trying to figure out why a particular system command is returning
> false on windows.
>
> This works fine and returns true:
>
> res = system('dir')
>
> This returns false with $? being nil:
>
> res = system('rake')
system('rake.bat')
--
Nobu Nakada
William James
> Kaspar Schiess wrote:
>
> > I call ruby scripts by
> > system('cmd.exe /c rake')
> >
> > Sadly, system seems to be broken many ways on windows.
> >
> >
> > kaspar
>
> How is this broken? the system() method works directly with the Windows
> shell. And the rake command isn't contained within the Windows shell as
> an internal command. That's why system('dir') works and system('rake')
> doesn't.
No; system('cal') works.
gregarican
> I think I know how this happens and everything (having done quite some c
> programming on windows), its just that I think that it breaks
> expectations. I hope I could illustrate my point.
>
>
> kaspar
You're correct. The fact that system() works much differently under
Windows does break expectations. Good illustration!