On May 26, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Paatsch, Bernd wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to ruby and I like to have a script that can  
> Executing a
> shell command from within a ruby script like "gem list --local"
> How would I do that?
>
Check out the system method, and back ticks (x = `gem list --local`).  
If you need somethin more complicated, look into IO.popen.

> Thanks,
> Bernd