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Rails and Applescript Question

 
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Rails and Applescript Question
fireknite
post 9 Oct, 2008 - 11:32 AM
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Writing a web application using Ruby on Rails for my work. Trying to figure out a way to incorporate AppleScript with it do launch a specific program when a button is clicked on the client machine.

Got it to where Ruby and AppleScript are talking to one another, but the AppleScript stuff ends up getting executed on the Server which is hosting the Ruby on Rails web app, not the client system. Below's what I've got so far:

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  require 'rubygems'
  require 'applescript'

  def administratorTools
    AppleScript.say "This is a test"
    script = 'tell application "Safari"
        activate
    end tell'
    AppleScript.execute(script)
    
  end


Any help would be great, thanks!
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post 10 Oct, 2008 - 06:57 AM
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You can't run applescript on a visitor's computer - it would be a huge security issue if you could.
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post 12 Oct, 2008 - 07:50 PM
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Yea I had a feeling that's what people were going to say. =/.
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post 12 Oct, 2008 - 08:09 PM
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Yup - some quick Googling mentions an "applescript://" URL, but I'm afraid I haven't played with it much at all - you may want to look into that.
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If you want simple app execution in ruby you can use system:

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system(cmd [, arg, ...]) => true or false
Executes cmd in a subshell, returning true if the command was found and ran successfully, false otherwise. An error status is available in $?. The arguments are processed in the same way as for Kernel::exec.
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