From: "Victor H. Goff III" <keeperotphones@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T06:51:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Running an executable local file with a Ruby script??

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I am not familiar enough with calls in Ruby to system in Linux at this
moment, but in Windows, I was recently doing this, and had to use something
like this:  system"call command"

If I simply did system"command" it did not operate like I expected.


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Luedeke <thomas.luedeke@areva.com>wrote:

> Dave Bass wrote:
> > Replace ./mkplots with a very simple executable (or script) which does
> > something like writing to a file, including any error messages sent to
> > stderr. Temporarily (!) give it maximal permissions, before reducing it
> > to the same permissions as mkplots.
> >
> > This will allow you to see whether the executable is actually being
> > executed or not and whether any errors are being generated. In my
> > experience there are often problems with permissions, especially if the
> > script is being run by a web server.
>
>
> This is kind of dumb (and certainly not 'The Ruby Way', but I got it to
> work with this workaround.
>
> (1) Create a little Korn shell file (save as make_plots.sh, change
> permissions with a `chmod +x make_plots.sg` ):
>
> <i>#! /bin/ksh</i>
> <i>mkplots</i>
>
> (2)  Run it with the following command in Ruby
>
> system( "make_plots.sh" )
>
>
>
> However, this really offends me to have to do this, so any further ideas
> are welcome....
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>
>

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