Isolation

A ruby gem to run command-line commands in isolation.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'isolation'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install isolation

Usage

runner = Isolation::CommandRunner.new("echo hello")
runner.run

runner.success? # true
runner.error_message # "" (empty string)

runner2 = Isolation::CommandRunner.new("ls -z")
runner2.run

runner2.success? # false
runner2.error_message # ls: illegal option -- z\nusage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]\n

Development

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

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/isolation.

License

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