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Teej
Teej

Reputation: 12873

Close application with Ruby

I was wondering how to close my browser from Ruby. I currently know how a way to open by:

system('firefox http://www.google.com')

How do I close the same browser window?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1026

Answers (2)

kikito
kikito

Reputation: 52621

It seems that you are just trying to "ping" http://www.google.com by opening a browser and then closing it up.

There are faster, easier ways to do that. The simplest one in your case (since you already have a command line set up) would be using curl or wget:

system('wget http://www.google.com')

This will "ping" the website, and simply discard the output. It'll be much faster than creating a firefox instance.

Upvotes: 1

Maurício Linhares
Maurício Linhares

Reputation: 40313

You're looking for Process.spawn. The usage would be something like this:

pid = Process.spawn( "firefox http://www.google.com" )
Process.kill( 'QUIT', pid )

Upvotes: 1

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