Mongrel users - Jun 2009 - Mongrel crashes while running ''exec'' through ruby.

Hi All,

I have a ruby on rails application and in the controller, I try to run a
shell script using exec command

like this

---
variable = ''sh /home/abc.sh''
exec variable
---

But when the control comes at this line, the mongrel server immediately
crashes, and when I check its status its says "missing pid file".

The shell script contains nothing wrong, it works fine on the linux
console, I have also commented everything in that shell script and put
just a single variable declaration, but even then the serer crashes..

Any Ideas, or is there any other way to run a shell script using ruby on
rails ??

Thanks in advance..

Tahir Rauf
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Got the solution, exec starts a new process so don''t use it..

just use the shell command in ruby like this

`sh /home/abc.sh`


in the controller..


It runs fine
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