On Mar 5, 1:41 pm, "Dale Martenson" <dale.marten... / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph... / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > lo there all
> > i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
> > i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
> > terminal, i use
> > /myprogram
> > or  /home/myuser/myprogram
>
> > how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?
>
> > thanks
> > sk
>
> There are a number of ways to accomplish this:
>
>      system( 'vim somefile' )
>
> or
>
>      `vim somefile`
>
> Note: those are back ticks by the way.

cool enough, works great, thanks
sk