Rails - Jul 2006 - Trying to get a command line function to work in rails

Hello all, let me preface by saying that I am a complete neophyte.

I have put together a toy application to monitor the domains that we  
host.  It displays basic information about the domain which I pull  
from a database. One of the things that I would like to do is, when  
the user drills down on a particular domain, have the system do a dig  
and display the returned info in the page.  I have tried several  
things such as:

def dig
   	@dig = `dig @ns2.emarketsouth.com #{domain.domain_name}`
   end

and none of them seem to work.  This type of construct does seem to  
work in IRB, but I am obviously missing something.  Could someone  
give me a nudge in the right direction?

Phil Peterman


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