objective-crubycocoaruby-cocoa

Invoking external shell application through RubyCocoa


How would I invoke an external application through the RubyCocoa bridge? I read something about NSTask, yet I have no idea how this should be translated in RubyCocoa. My goal is to have an IB_action to trigger a method which will run a terminal application with some parameters, i.e. ls -p $mydir, where mydir comes from an IB_outlet such as an Textfield. Any directions or help would be greatly appreciated!


Solution

  • Usually it is invoked using ` quotes and #{} structure for variable

    `ls -p #{mydir}`