Vamsi Krishna wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> well, i thaught differently and want to know can any body me to
> restart or shutdown an operating system with ruby code?
> if possible please reply, i think it may be possible...


system 'any cmd' # comes to mind.

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On 31 Mar 2008, at 12:45, Damjan Rems wrote:
> Vamsi Krishna wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> well, i thaught differently and want to know can any body me
>> to
>> restart or shutdown an operating system with ruby code?
>> if possible please reply, i think it may be possible...
>
>
> system 'any cmd' # comes to mind.

win = RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(ms|cyg)win|mingw/
flags = ' -h now'
flags = ' -t 0' if win
system "#{'sudo' unless win} shutdown #{flags}"

or something like that...

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well i'll clearly tell about this

through my ruby code i,e; when i run my ruby program the operating
system 've to be shutdown i'm using ubuntu
so how to do....
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Vamsi Krishna wrote:
> well i'll clearly tell about this
>
> through my ruby code i,e; when i run my ruby program the operating
> system 've to be shutdown i'm using ubuntu
> so how to do....

system 'shutdown -h now'

And you need to be sudo which might be a problem. But that is Ubuntu
problem now.

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Vamsi Krishna,
Any command/combination you use in your shell, you can use from ruby too

system "the command"
or
return_value = `the_command`


There are more ways, but system is the easiest one.
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