Take a look at win32-process:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-process/
(part of the win32-utils project).
Take a look also at the builtin Process class
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/rdoc/1.9/classes/Process.html).


-----Original Message-----
From: "brucem / poczta.onet.pl"@80.48.246.196
[mailto:"brucem / poczta.onet.pl"@80.48.246.196] On Behalf Of olek
Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 5:13 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: How to close application on Windows?


Hi,
I need to open some application from ruby on WinXP, get some action
connected to that app. and close it.

thread= Thread.new(0) {
system("abt.exe") # opening my app.
}
sleep(20) # time for start abt.exe
#getting data from abt.exe
system("hptcmd export")
#closing abt.exe - it doesn't work!!!!
Thread.kill(thread)
#abt.exe still active

Maybe I should kill a procces connected to that application so the
application would be closed ....?

Thanks for every advice
Mariusz