On Jun 4, 10:47 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep... / googlemail.com> wrote: > Yingqi Tang wrote: > > When I can system("...") in ruby, I got either true or false returned, > > but how do I capture the information that being printed out in console > > when the cmd is being executed? > > By using backticks or %x{} instead of system. > > -- > Ist so, weil ist so > Bleibt so, weil war so Another option besides backticks or %x{} is to use IO#popen. This is useful if you want to read output in the same manner as you would with a file.