[PD] run ruby script from [shell]?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I had good luck with [motex/system].  I made this little object to  
control iTunes from Pd using applescript.

.hc

On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Ben Baker-Smith wrote:

> I had the same problem, on Mac OS X with Pd-extended 0.41.4
>
> I ran some tests and it seems that relative paths in [shell] just  
> don't work like they do with the rest of pd. For example, if you  
> have a pd patch in the same folder as ruby_script.rb, you can't run  
> it simply by using a "ruby ruby_script.rb" message, you have to do  
> "ruby /full/path/to/ruby_script.rb" (as opposed to, say, media files  
> or abstractions in the same folder as your patch).
>
> Both [motex/system] and [ggee/shell] work on my macbook.
> (thanks for the list, Hans. I didn't know there were two [popen]  
> objects)
>
>
> Ben Baker-Smith
> --
> http://bitsynthesis.com
>
>
> There are four options to try, let us know which works best for you:
>
> flatspace/popen
> moonlib/popen
> motex/system
> ggee/shell
>
> .hc
>
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Jon wrote:
>
> > hi
> > i'm trying to execute a ruby script from the shell object by sending
> > it the message "ruby /path/to/script.rb arguments" but i get  
> nothing.
> > the script works fine from the command line, with the exact same
> > arguments. is there an alternative?
> > i'm on osx, latest stable pd extended
> > thank you
> >
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