[PD] run ruby script from [shell]?

Ben Baker-Smith bbakersmith at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 06:19:03 CEST 2010


I like that. I never thought of using applescript with Pd, thanks for
sharing.


Ben Baker-Smith
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http://bitsynthesis.com


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> I had good luck with [motex/system].  I made this little object to control
> iTunes from Pd using applescript.
>
> .hc
>
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>
> 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
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> http://bitsynthesis.com
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>> 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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