exec the cd command in a ruby script

Question

I\'d like to change the pwd of the current shell from within a ruby script. So:

> pwd
/tmp
> ruby cdscript.rb
> pwd
/usr/bin

This

Answer 1

Stumbled across this while searching to do the same thing.

I was able to solve this by running multiple statements within the backticks.

'cd #{path} &&  && cd ..'