------ art_14724_5664594.1166592144954 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline maybe you can try to use an absolute path to 'perl'. 2006/12/20, Li Chen <chen_li3 / yahoo.com>: > > Hi all, > > I need to run a perl script from Ruby and capture its output. I use the > following line in Ruby but it fails. Any input will be appreciated. > > out erl c:\\Perl\\self\\back1\.pl` > > > Li > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > ------ art_14724_5664594.1166592144954--