Rails - May 2006 - Kernel#system Kernel#` - Is anyone using these in Rails?

Since my previous question didn''t get much attention, I thought
I''d make the
subject more expressive.  I didn''t realize the list had this much
traffic.

Is anyone using system or "backquote" to run commands in Rails?  These
work
fine in webrick, but both return nil when running in Apache FCGI.  In CGI
mode, system seems to work, but backquote doesn''t. Any ideas?  Been
banging
my head on the wall for a while.

BTW, this is on Windows.

Mark
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> BTW, this is on Windows.
well that really explains it to be honest.

yes, im using backquotes in a production app. just wget. since net::http 
doesnt seem to have a direct-to-disk download optiion...

i have used popen() extensively on windows in python. although the one 
time i tried popen/fork stuff in ruby on windows (in gridflow''s 
configure script) it was fairly broken - the interpreter segfaulting 
etc.

your main point of failure besides general windows brokenness, and the 
hurdles this places on the win32-specific exec/system/popen/backticks 
features, is the environment, and permissions.  be aware the web server 
may be running as ''nobody'' or someone who cant really do much
of
anything, and doesnt have a proper PATH, etc..

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