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RCR 98: ruby_run() calls exit?

submitted by Warden on 2002-05-07 21:34:07

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I'm working on embedding ruby in c and I discovered that the ruby_run command calls exit once it's done. Now when using ruby as a pure interpreter, that's fine. But when I need to continue to run a program once ruby is done executing, I can't have it call exit. Is there a way around ruby calling exit? Or can it be removed? This issue also exists there's an exception thrown by ruby. can we have ruby_run return an error code so that it's more easily embeddable?

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This comes up on the mailing list quite frequently (root, 2002-05-07 23:45:11)

There are a number of suggested ways of solving the problem, such as using rb_eval_string_protect. Try for one answer.

thanks (Warden, 2002-05-08 12:46:37)

Thanks. Lesson one children.... read the email lists :)

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