Backticks and timeouts

[Allen Coley]

I've never used Ruby before but need to try something tonight for sorta
presentation tomorrow.
The extent of my Ruby code is inside of RPG Maker XP (last minute thing
had like 1 day to show my idea) and when someone walks over a certain
tile it executes
result = `notepad.exe`

That's it. Problem is RPG Maker then times out if I don't immediately
close the notepad window. Is there any way to execute notepad.exe
without actually expecting a result back? Just launch and forget about
it?

 

[Peña, Botp]

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[Allen Coley]

io1= IO.popen "notepad.exe"

That was all I needed right there and it worked like champ.