Rpg Maker Developers Group

// the MV javascript
var runMyRubyScript = function(){
   // I can't get the global "_dirname" to work on my mac
   var pn = document.location.pathname;
   var _dir = pn.match(/^\/\w:\//) !== null ?
       unescape(pn.replace(/^\/|index\.html$/g, '')) // windows path
     :
       unescape(pn.replace(/index\.html$/, '')); // mac path
   // I also need to combine my dir with node path on Mac
   var path = require('path');
   var myRubyScript = path.join(_dir, "js/plugins/myRubyScript.rb");
   var proc = require('child_process');
   var env = Object.create(process.env);
       env.myRubyVariable = "Hello! I'm from a Ruby script!";
   // this is an ENV variable that can be read in your rb
   var inspect = proc.spawn("ruby", [myRubyScript], {env:env});
   inspect.stderr.on('data', function(data) {
       console.log(data.toString());
       // this reads from the ruby errors if any
   });
   inspect.stdout.sync = true;
   // this ^ keeps it from returning the buffer array
   inspect.stdout.on('data', function(data) {
       $gameMessage.add(data.toString());
   });
};

# myRubyScript.rb

STDOUT.sync = true
$stdout.sync = true
# this ^ keeps the stdout from being a bunch of numbers,
# I'm not sure which one to use, so I use both.
# Perhaps one is wrong, but it seems to work either way.

myMessage = ENV["myRubyVariable"]
# this ^ is the environment variable set from the node js
# global process.env

puts myMessage