Re: [Rails] System() Function

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Pavling
On 21 February 2011 02:06, Nop wrote: > whether i use system("octave","/usr/bin") or > system("octave"), it will return "true", telling me that the > application was successfully executed. > I can't convert the output to string, either. > > What are your recommendations to grab the output from an

[Rails] System() Function

2011-02-21 Thread Nop
Hi, I'm new to RoR and to begin I decided to do a graphic calculator as my second project. I plan to use octave to evaluate the expressions, I can't get to install the octave-ruby gem and for the sake of development speed I'll be fetching the ouput of "octave --eval" instead. I found that ruby use