From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T04:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: "permission denied"

Igor Pirnovar wrote:
> Peter Bailey wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm frustrated with one of my Ruby scripts. It's an image processing
>> script that converts [sometimes thousands] of images and then HTTPs on
>> to archival servers. I continue to get a "permission denied" error on
>> one out of many files.
> 
> Why not implementing something like the following to salvage your 
> processing, document (LOG) the problem and deal with it latter:
> 
> ...
>  success = ProdOrca.sendPNG pngfile
>   if success == true then
>   ftpfile = File.new(filesuccess, "w")
>   ftp.putbinaryfile(filesuccess)
>   ftpfile.close
>   File.open("E:/logs/StatusReports/InfoConFiles.log", ...
>  else
>   ftpfile = File.new(fileerror, "w")
>   ftp.putbinaryfile(fileerror)
>   ftpfile.close
>   File.open("E:/logs/StatusReports/InfoConFiles.log", ...
>  end
>  ####### Salvage your operation and log the problematic files ######
>  begin
>   FileUtils.rm(pngfile)  <----- This is what it's complaining about.
>  rescue
>   puts "LOG: #{File.expand_path(file)} can not be handled"
>  end
> ...

Guess what? That's exactly what I did. Thanks a lot for your suggestion. 
Begin/Rescue comes through for me again. I realized that FileUtils would 
be full of "raises" and "exceptions," so, a begin/rescue should work 
just fine. I'm running the script now on about 1,400 files.
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