[Seaside] Re: What do you think about Ruby on Rails ?

[David T. Lewis]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:56:34PM +0100, news.gmane.org wrote:
> Yes, but from the limited time I spent looking into it, it not so easy 
> to execute  a program from squeak though. I got as far as loading the 
> OSProcessPlugin before talk of using VMMaker got me thoroughly confused. 
> Is there a simple guide on how to execute a shell command from Squeak 
> that does not require me to compile a VM?
> 
> Daniel

If you are using a Unix VM (one of the pre-compiled VMs from Ian's site),
then the plugins (OSProcessPlugin and XDisplayControlPlugin) are already
included. You don't have to build anything. Just load the OSProcess and
CommandShell packages from Squeak Map and everything should work fine.

Dave