There is probably no or different path. Try with an absolute file name, e.g.,
`/usr/bin/commmand args`.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Greg Willits
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>:> I''m at a loss as what to look for...
>
> I can issue a command result = `some_os_command_string` on my dev system
> just fine in both a pur ruby test file, and from Rails in dev mode.
>
> When I push that code to my server, the backtick command doesn''t
work.
> No failure message -- even if I wrap it in begin/rescue so I have no
> specific clues to work from.
>
> I can run that same back ticked command on the server from a simple ruby
> test file, but not from Rails.
>
> Any ideas what I could look for as to why Rails might be interfering
> with this?
>
> Thx
>
> (OS X 10.5.8 client and server versions, Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.3.2)
>
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