From: bdezonia@...
Date: 2007-11-09T03:30:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows: Scheduled Ruby script won't run

On Nov 8, 10:37 am, Mohit Sindhwani <mo_m...@onghu.com> wrote:
> Michael Gaunnac wrote:
> > On Nov 7, 2007 1:35 PM,  <bdezo...@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> > The attached file contains the parts of a Scheduled Task that reports
> > a restart of a Windows OS instance through email and any errors
> > associated with Terminal Services.  The parts are separated by dashes.
> > This may be more than what you are looking for but it contains some
> > hard won information.
>
> Hi, I'm not sure and I can't tell much from the script without trying it
> out.  Could you try something?  In your .cmd file, can you do a chdir to
> the directory in which it's supposed to run.  Do the same for the Ruby
> script also.  See if that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Mohit.
> 11/9/2007 | 12:37 AM.

Okay, here is a test script/cmd combo that runs from the command line
but not from a Scheduled Task under Windows. It results in an error
code of one.

##### blunk.cmd file

c:
cd \scripts
c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe c:\scripts\blunk.rb

# I have tried using the env variable idea earlier with no different
outcome

##### blunk.rb file

PATCHFILE = "c:/scripts/patchDayNotice"  # also without absolute path
tried and failed

File.open(PATCHFILE,"a") do | file |
  file.print("BLUNK called\n")
  print "BLUNK called\n"
end

Any help anyone can give would be great. Is the error return code of
one from Ruby? What error is that? I can't find any info on that.