How do I source environment variables for a command shell in a Ruby script?

Question

I\'m trying to run some third party bash scripts from within my ruby program.

Before I can run them they require me to source a file. On the command line it all wor

Answer 1

This is horrible, but..

env = %x{. /some/shell/script/which/setups/your/env && env}
env.split("\n").each do |line|
  key, value = line.split("=", 2)
  ENV[key] ||= value unless value.nil? or value.empty?
end