Rails - May 2005 - Trouble referring to Files within /public in production...

Hello, me again!

I''m having the hardest time creating a file on my server! I''m
trying
to create these files in sub-folders of /public such as /public/1 or / 
public/4 ... and these folders do exist on both my development and  
testing servers. And it''s working in development, but just fails in  
production! Here is what the code in question looks like:

             feed = render_component_as_string(:action =>  
''website'', :id => @params[:website_name])
             @foldername = File.join(''public'',
@params[:website_name])
             @filename = "site.xml"
             @fullname = File.join(@foldername, @filename)
             File.open(@fullname, "w") { |file| file.write feed }

I''m rendering my hand-rolled XML "feed" to a file, but
it''s not
working, it can''t "find" the file, but like I said, only on
the
production server (TextDrive) but not in development. Factors that  
might be influencing this:

1. It''s in a subdomain, not my primary domain, and Apache is  
responsible for directing traffic there.

2. My .htaccess is out-of-the-box standard, I''ve triple-checked...

3. My routes.rb is pretty darn vanilla.

4. The actual error message I''m seeing in my production log:
         Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - /public/1/site.xml):

So I''ve tried everything I could think of, and no-one in the  
TextDrive forums seems to have any ideas, so I thought I''d ask on  
here. Any ideas?

Thanks, Raymond

On May 13, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Raymond Brigleb wrote:
> I''m having the hardest time creating a file on my server!
I''m
> trying to create these files in sub-folders of /public such as / 
> public/1 or /public/4 ... and these folders do exist on both my  
> development and testing servers. And it''s working in development,
> but just fails in production! Here is what the code in question  
> looks like:
>
>   feed = render_component_as_string(:action =>
''website'', :id =>
> @params[:website_name])
>   @foldername = File.join(''public'',
@params[:website_name])
Hey Raymond-- try
     @foldername = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''public'', params 
[:website_name])
>   @filename = "site.xml"
>   @fullname = File.join(@foldername, @filename)
>   File.open(@fullname, "w") { |file| file.write feed }
Best,
jeremy

> Hey Raymond-- try
>     @foldername = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''public'', params 
> [:website_name])
Shoot, Jeremy, that was it. :) A thousand thank-yous!

I suspected I was looking for something like that, but it can be a  
bit like trying to look up something in the dictionary that you have  
no idea how to spell!

-raymond

>              feed = render_component_as_string(:action =>
> ''website'', :id => @params[:website_name])
>              @foldername = File.join(''public'',
@params[:website_name])
>              @filename = "site.xml"
>              @fullname = File.join(@foldername, @filename)
>              File.open(@fullname, "w") { |file| file.write feed }
> 
Just a guess (haven''t worked much with RoR), but from the error
message and this join command it seems to me like it''s looking for
/public/public/1/site.xml. I would try removing ''/public'' from
the
path.


-andy

-- 
Andrew Stone