launchy

DESCRIPTION

Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications.

There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched in different manners. Launchy is here to assist in launching the appropriate application on the appropriate platform from within your ruby projects.

FEATURES

Currently only launching a browser is supported.

SYNOPSIS

From within your ruby code you can trust launchy to do the right thing:

Launchy.do_magic("http://www.ruby-lang.org/")

Or, if you want to launch the application yourself:

Launchy::Spawnable::Browser.run("http://www.ruby-lang.org/")

OR

Launchy::Spawnable::Browser.new.visit("http://www.ruby-lang.org/")

LICENSE

Copyright © 2007, Jeremy Hinegardner

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