system call in Ruby

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Ruby-help Hi. I'm a beginner in ruby and in programming as well and need help with system call for moving a file from source to destination like this:

system(mv "#{@SOURCE_DIR}/#{my_file} #{@DEST_DIR}/#{file}")

Is it possible to do this in ruby and which is the correct syntax?

Thx

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