Hello,
I need to build a web based control panel für an external application which cannot be detached.
When I'm running it at the moment I need two terminal windows and it looks like this:
Window 1: $ ./ext_app ...server started
Window 2: $ telnet localhost 9000 connected to server input: startchannel 1 starting channel 1... input: allowip localhost added ip localhost... input: exit bye
While I do all the inputs in window 2, window 1 logs it all.
So my question is if there's an easy way to: 1. Fork the rails application so it can call and run ./ext_app 2. Connect to the server via telnet and execute all these commands
All web-based, of course 
Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated! Thanks
Hans