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I don't want to do this anymore. What is the easiest way to just start a standalone ruby script from my rails application. Keep in mind I don't need any progress reports and I don't need to know when it finishes. I just need to start the script and that's it and let it run on its own seperate from rails.
How can I achieve this? I do need to pass 2 parameters (string values) to the script.
The simplest solution might be fork and exec. Something like this should work on Unix/Linux, but probably not on Windows:
def some_rails_action fork { exec "some_sript_on_path.rb", "arg1", "arg2" } render_something end
HTH, Stefan