multiplatform pipe open?

[Sebastian Yepes ESN]

Hi all,

I'm starting with Ruby and i am trying to migrate some Perl scripts to
Ruby, but cant get pipes with open to work like in perl.

What's the Right way to make open "pipes, stdin,stdout" work in all OS
platforms, with no external gems?

I have tried the 'fh = IO.popen("/bin/console_programe","w+")', but
don't understand why i need to use the method "close_write".



Thanks for any help.


Perl script:
---------
&cons_connect;
&cons_register;
&cons_listener;

sub cons_connect {
local (*CONS_READ, *CONS_WRITE);
open2(\*CONS_READ, \*CONS_WRITE, "/bin/console_programe");
my $line = <CONS_READ>;

if($line =~ /xml/){ print "CONNECTED CONNECT TO CONS"
}else{ print "CANNOT CONNECT TO CONS"; }
}

sub cons_register {
my(@SERVICES) = @_;

print CONS_WRITE "<Register>\n";
foreach my $service ( @SERVICES ){
print CONS_WRITE "<Cond>\n$service\n</Cond>\n";
}
print CONS_WRITE "</Register>\n";
my $line = <CONS_READ>;

if($line =~ /<OK\/>\n/){ print "REGISTRATION: OK";
}else{ print "REGISTRATION: NOK"; }
}

sub cons_listener {
while ($line = <CONS_READ>){
# Processing the...
}
}

 

[Brian Candler]

Hi all,

I'm starting with Ruby and i am trying to migrate some Perl scripts to
Ruby, but cant get pipes with open to work like in perl.

What's the Right way to make open "pipes, stdin,stdout" work in all OS
platforms, with no external gems?

I have tried the 'fh = IO.popen("/bin/console_programe","w+")', but
don't understand why i need to use the method "close_write".

You don't show your Ruby code, but maybe you just need fh.flush after
the last write, or set fh.sync = true after opening the pipe.

That is: the output data may be being buffered at the Ruby side. A
close_write would certainly flush it, whilst allowing you to read the
response.