Ruby escape ARGV argument or string as argument to shell command

Question

Ok this is driving me crazy:

`ls #{\"/media/music/Miles Davis\"}`

fails because of the space between \"Miles\" and \"Davis\"

Say I writ

Answer 1

Use require 'shellwords' and Shellwords.escape, which will fix this sort of stuff for you:

http://apidock.com/ruby/Shellwords/shellescape