Hi all,

I am a newbie currently trying to execute shell commands from ruby instead of a shell script.(This method is conceived only for solaris so no issues with porting to other OS and all)
Eg:
Consider the command 'ls"
with a shell script ,I would use it like this
bash# ls
<all the contents in that dir would be displayed>

Now how do i get to do the same with ruby?

I dont want to use methods like recursively searching the directory and then displaying the contents(through some while loop )
It has to be only "ls", as in i need to make "ls" work on solaris through ruby as it would if it were to be written In a shell script?

Thanks