Rails - Feb 2010 - Problems with system("...") method in Rails

Hi there,

since two days or so my application doesn''t seem to execute the system
method. I use it for generating thumbnails like:

    def create_thumb(field,image_name)

      thumb_name = "..."
      path = "..."

      # call ImageMagick method from console
      command = "convert -thumbnail 120x120 " + path + image_name +
" " +
path + thumb_name
      logger.info("UPLOAD: before converting to 120x120 with
#{command}")
      system(command)
      .....

    end

The output to the logger is correct. When  I execute the command string in
the console (rails console or linux console) it works. But it seems not to
work inside my Rails controller, which is really weird. It just don''t
gets
executed. I don''t get any error messages, any. Where else can I look?

Thanks for any help.

Chris

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On Feb 1, 2:04 pm, Christoph Jasinski
<christoph.jasin...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> The output to the logger is correct. When  I execute the command string in
> the console (rails console or linux console) it works. But it seems not to
> work inside my Rails controller, which is really weird. It just
don''t gets
> executed. I don''t get any error messages, any. Where else can I
look?
Have you looked at the return value of system and $?

Fred

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Thank Fred,

didn''t know about that possibility. But unfortunately the result is 0.
So
it''s really bad magic to me. Am trying to set the command path
manually.
Maybe that works.

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Seems that I had to write the full path to convert. That might be cause by a
problem I had with rmagick and had to install ImageMagick in two different
ways (from source and from rpm) at the same time. It had screwed the path to
convert. But somehow the rails console and linux console had no problem with
the path, only a controller method.
When I removed all the comments and the loggin'' calls I didn''t
work again.
So I left them. Somewhere along the ''path'' there must be a
problem. When I
solve that I gonna tell you.

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On 1 Feb 2010, at 14:49, Christoph Jasinski wrote:
> Seems that I had to write the full path to convert. That might be cause by
a problem I had with rmagick and had to install ImageMagick in two different
ways (from source and from rpm) at the same time. It had screwed the path to
convert. But somehow the rails console and linux console had no problem with the
path, only a controller method.
> When I removed all the comments and the loggin'' calls I
didn''t work again. So I left them. Somewhere along the
''path'' there must be a problem. When I solve that I gonna tell
you.
> 
You could easily be running as a different user which could cause $PATH to have
different values.

Fred
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