hey guys... i managed to solve what i was attempting.. my goal was rather simple, to be able to have a python script, call a ruby app, and be able to return a value from the ruby (child) app to the parent.. blocking/unblocking wasn't on my radar for now.
ultimately, my goal is to have an app on a master server, with that app calling the ruby app using the remote functions (rsh/rexec for now). so, on the master python, i have: #!/usr/bin/python #test python script import re import os import sys, string import os.path import subprocess #print "foo" pp="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/xxxx/?metrics=uv"; a = subprocess.Popen(["/test1/test.rb",pp], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) aa=a.communicate()[0] qq=aa.split("\n") print "qq[8] = ",qq[8] print "qq[9] = ",qq[9] print "qq[10] = ",qq[10] #exit() and on the child/ruby app: #! /usr/local/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.1.1/firewatir' include FireWatir a1=ARGV[0] ff=Firefox.new ff.goto(a1) table = ff.table(:id, "dataTable").to_a #puts table #puts "blah...." aa = table[1][1] puts table[1][1] #ff.text_field(:name, "q").set("ruby") #ff.button(:value,"Google Search").click #puts ff.element_by_xpath("//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'l']").text #ff.close #puts "hi there" #return (33) this pretty much works as it needs to for now... like i said.. rather simple, as it should be. so thanks for the help/suggestions from everyone! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul McGuire Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:27 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: python/ruby question.. On Jun 18, 10:33 pm, "bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi... > > can someone point me to where/how i would go about calling a ruby app from a > python app, and having the python app being able to get a returned value > from the ruby script. > I'm betting that Ruby is similar to Python in that a Ruby interpreter can be embedded within other applications. Why not implement something like ruby_exec(), similar to Python's exec, which takes a string containing Ruby code, and a dict of variables that can be accessed and updated from the executed Ruby? Then no messing around with subprocess, XMLRPC, firing up processes, etc. - just create the string and call it. (Implementation left as an exercise for the reader.) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
