Create an instance of the commandline application of launchy
# File lib/launchy.rb, line 47 def command_line Launchy::CommandLine.new end
Setting the LAUNCHY_DEBUG environment variable to 'true' will spew debug information to $stderr
# File lib/launchy.rb, line 40 def log(msg) if ENV['LAUNCHY_DEBUG'] == 'true' then $stderr.puts "LAUNCHY_DEBUG: #{msg}" end end
Convenience method to launch an item
# File lib/launchy.rb, line 21 def open(*params) begin klass = Launchy::Application.find_application_class_for(*params) if klass then klass.run(*params) else msg = "Unable to launch #{params.join(' ')}" Launchy.log "#{self.name} : #{msg}" $stderr.puts msg end rescue Exception => e msg = "Failure in opening #{params.join(' ')} : #{e}" Launchy.log "#{self.name} : #{msg}" $stderr.puts msg end end
Utility method to require all files ending in .rb in the directory with the same name as this file minus .rb
# File lib/launchy.rb, line 6 def self.require_all_libs_relative_to(fname) prepend = File.basename(fname,".rb") search_me = File.join(File.dirname(fname),prepend) Dir.entries(search_me).each do |rb| if File.extname(rb) == ".rb" then require "#{prepend}/#{File.basename(rb,".rb")}" end end end