If you want to execute operating system level commands from ruby the solution is below. it’s quite easy and interesting. What would i say about the beauty of ruby here, Just thanks to ruby creators. irb(main):001:0> system('ls -l')
total 2240
drwxr-xr-x 15 tarun tarun 24576 2008-05-21 01:33 git-1.5.5.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarun tarun 2002900 2008-04-21 03:47 git-1.5.5.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarun tarun 252308 2008-04-21 04:05 git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 tarun tarun 4096 2008-05-21 09:42 ruby
=>; true
irb(main):002:0>