Rails - Nov 2010 - How to add an exe to Rails app

I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there is
an easy way:

I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf

I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on purpose
and want to keep it this way.

My code wants to execute wkhtmltopdf:

    # tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf
    %x[wkhtmltopdf-amd64 #{html_path} #{new_pdf_path}]

But it is not found... is there a way I can tell my rails app to look in
vendor/wkhtmltopdf for the exe?

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On Nov 15, 2:50 am, David Kahn
<d...-rfEMNHKVqOwNic7Bib+Ti1W1rNmOCjRP@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there is
> an easy way:
>
> I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
> rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf
>
> I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on
purpose
> and want to keep it this way.
>
> My code wants to execute wkhtmltopdf:
>
>     # tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf
>     %x[wkhtmltopdf-amd64 #{html_path} #{new_pdf_path}]
>
> But it is not found... is there a way I can tell my rails app to look in
> vendor/wkhtmltopdf for the exe?
Easiest thing is probably to construct the full path to your binary
rather than relying on what may or may not be in $PATH

Fred

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David Kahn wrote in post #961433:
> I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there
> is
> an easy way:
>
> I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
> rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf
>
> I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on
> purpose
> and want to keep it this way.
Why?

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