How can I invoke Ruby from Node.js?

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user544941 picture user544941 · Nov 12, 2011 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

There are several ways for running JavaScript inside of a Ruby script. For example, there is ExecJS which is frequently used for porting NPM modules to Ruby. So, is there a "ExecRuby" for Node?

Answer

Flambino picture Flambino · Nov 12, 2011

You can invoke Ruby like any other shell command using child_process.exec()

var exec = require("child_process").exec;

exec('ruby -e "puts \'Hello from Ruby!\'"', function (err, stdout, stderr) {
    console.log(stdout);
});

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