Start foreman from a Ruby Script

Question

I just created a script/run in my project in the following way:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# set some ENV variables..
`foreman start -f Procfile.dev`

So, I have some questions:

If I set a ENV["EMAIL_USERNAME"] from the ruby script, will rails be able to read it?
Running foreman in that way seems like doens't work. It just stuck. Is there another way?

Yeah, I do know that I cant export a ENV variable to PATH, but I wish I can made the variable be exported to the app only.

PS: It could be in bash too.

See this question: [Spawn a background process in Ruby](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2504445/7552) — glenn jackman, Nov 28 '12 at 01:09
it solves everything! thank you very much. Now, how can I give you your points for that? — caarlos0, Nov 28 '12 at 01:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Well, I made it work following glenn jackman's link: Spawn a background process in Ruby

Just call exec instead of put the command between `

Thanks.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Dec 03 '12 at 10:43

caarlos0

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