How do I source environment variables for a command shell in a Ruby script?

Question

I\'m trying to run some third party bash scripts from within my ruby program.

Before I can run them they require me to source a file. On the command line it all wor

Answer 1

Modifying ENV works only for a single thread and I do the below instead. But a question I have how do I use a merged COPY of the environment with IO.popen ? somehow it doesn't seem to work.

with "system" I can do:

# ... create new "path" here

    subEnv = Hash.new;
    subEnv.merge!(ENV); # copy old environment
    subEnv['PATH'] = path; # set new values in copy

    system(subEnv, commandLine);