Subshell

This gem makes it easy to run shell commands from within ruby. It will raise an exception if the command fails with an unexpected exit status. By default it automatically redirects STDERR to STDOUT when executing the command. The return value is the output of the command with whitespace automatically stripped.

Example usage:

Subshell.exec 'echo hello world'                          # => "hello world"
Subshell.exec 'echo hello world', strip_whitespace: false # => "hello world\n"
Subshell.exec 'exit 1'                                    # => raises RuntimeError

Options

Option	Default	Description
redirect_stderr_to_stdout	true	append 2>&1 to the command
expected_status	0	raise if the exit status of the command does not equal this value
strip_whitespace	true	strip whitespace from the command's output
logger	Rails logger (if available) or nil	log debug info, if set
debug	false	print debug info to STDOUT. does not affect logger output
quiet	false	disable logger and STDOUT logging. useful to suppress sensitive or verbose data from being logged

These options can be set per call. For convenience, the defaults can be changed with a call to Subshell.set_defaults:

Subshell.set_defaults(strip_whitespace: false)
Subshell.exec 'echo hello world'                 # => 'hello world\n'

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'subshell'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install subshell

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/falconed/subshell. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.