Ruby Pipes

pipes.rb

# I want to capture the output of both forked processes, print it, and then
# end. Currently the program hangs after printing the output from both forked
# processes. I think this is because "reader.eof?" doesn't return true because
# neither sub-process ever calls "writer.close". They don't call that because
# they can't, since exec changes the current process, so any ruby after the
# exec call won't get run.
#
# How do I handle this? Should I not use fork/exec?
# UPDATE: Answer below
reader, writer = IO.pipe

pid1 = fork do
    reader.close
    $stdout.reopen writer
    exec 'echo "Hello from pid1"'
end

Process.detach pid1

pid2 = fork do
    reader.close
    $stdout.reopen writer
    exec 'echo "Hello from pid2"'
end

Process.detach pid2
# This was the problem!!! Close the damn pipe n00b
writer.close

until reader.eof?
    puts reader.gets
end