System call from Ruby

Question

How can you call terminal calls from within Ruby?

Can i run \"rake db:migrate VERSION=....\" from within my Rails program?

Answer 1

Use "`" quotes:

`rake db:migrate VERSION=....`

or system

system("rake db:migrate VERSION=....")

Also you can use this notation:

%x[rake db:migrate VERSION=...]

Also see http://blog.jayfields.com/2006/06/ruby-kernel-system-exec-and-x.html

Answer 2

This should give you the info you need: http://blog.jayfields.com/2006/06/ruby-kernel-system-exec-and-x.html