# Running Shell Commands

Although you can use any Ruby method to execute shell and system commands from within your jobs, Jobly comes bundled with TTY::Command which is made available to your jobs by using the #shell method.

class Shell < Jobly::Job
  def execute
    shell.run "docker pull ubuntu"
  end
end

Using this method is recommended, since it automatically sends the STDOUT and STDERR of the command to the configured logging device, and it will raise an exception on failure, which will fail the job.

When the JOBLY_SHELL_DRY_RUN environment variable is set, the shell.run helper will not run the commands, and instead, only print them to the log.

To include the shell helper in other classes (non Jobly::Job), you can include the Jobly::Shell module (or the more inclusive Jobly::Helpers module).

class Git
  include Jobly::Shell

  def clone(repo)
    shell.exec "git clone #{repo}"
  end
end