[BioRuby] Bio::Commandeer

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi All,

I just released the bio-commandeer biogem, which I thought might be of
somewhat general interest. Basically, it allows one to quickly run shell
commands from within Ruby, without having to worry so much about things
going wrong:

require 'bio-commandeer'
Bio::Commandeer.run 'echo 5' #=> '"5\n"
Bio::Commandeer.run 'cat /fail' #=> raises informative Exception

I hope that it might save others some typing. I'm finding it particularly
useful in glue type one-off scripts where in the past I'd be tempted not to
check that the commands returned successfully, out of laziness.

ben

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Ben Woodcroft
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