[BioRuby] Bio::Commandeer

[Ben Woodcroft]

More on the readme, of course:
https://github.com/wwood/bioruby-commandeer


On 12 January 2014 17:57, Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> --
> Ben Woodcroft
> http://ecogenomic.org/users/ben-woodcroft <http://www.ecogenomic.org/>
>



-- 
--
Ben Woodcroft
http://ecogenomic.org/users/ben-woodcroft <http://www.ecogenomic.org/>