Where is the difference between >system "script/myscript"< and >script/myscript< (via shell)?

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hallo everybody,

i’ve searched the web for quite some time now, but didn’t find an
answer to this question (and thus no solution to my problem).

explanation:
i wrote a script to start a DRb-server on a rails-app. what i want to
achieve is to run this script from another application (on the same
machine). everything is working perfectly when i start myscript from a
shell and enter “script/myscript” (without quotes). but when i call it
from my other application like this: system “#{path}/script/myscript”
my tests are failing…

of course there is the obvious difference in ENV[’_’], but even
changing this manually wouldn’t help. i’m looking for a way to get a
“clean” call. (just like from shell)

any ideas?

thanks in advance
dominik

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On 20 Oct 2008, at 15:04, none wrote:

shell and enter “script/myscript” (without quotes). but when i call it
from my other application like this: system “#{path}/script/myscript”
my tests are failing…

current working directory is one obvious difference that does screw up
some things.

Fred

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current working directory is one obvious difference that does screw up
some things.

Fred

thanks for your quick response!
still, it’s not working. everytime i call an instance-method of
‘some_class’ in my remote application, it crashes.

without copy/paste-ing a whole bunch of code, here is what happens (in
pseudocode):

>> myobject = MyObject.new
>> myobject.save
>> myobject.my_instance_method!
NameError: uninitialized constant MyObject::RemoteAppControlClass
        from (druby://localhost:9003) /home/n0ne/_files/work/_code/
my_remote_app/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:478:in `const_missing'
        from (druby://localhost:9003) ./app/models/my_object.rb:95:in
`my_instance_method!'
        from (druby://localhost:9003) /home/n0ne/_files/work/_code/
my_remote_app/lib/drb_server.rb:30:in `some_method'
        from /home/n0ne/_files/work/_code/my_local_app/app/models/
my_object.rb:97:in `my_instance_method!'
        from (irb):6

explanation:

  • there are two rails-apps ‘my_local_app’ and ‘my_remote_app’
  • both apps share a common database-connection for ‘MyObject’ (with
    the plugin use_db)
  • when ‘my_local_app’ calls ‘my_instance_method!’ it’s redirected (via
    drb_server) to ‘my_remote_app’ and ‘my_instance_method!’ gets
    evaluated there
  • when starting both apps individually this works great! which means
    there is no fundamental error in my code.
  • when starting ‘my_remote_app’ through the ‘remote_app_control_class’
    i get that weird error.
  • a manual start is done by calling ‘script/start_remote_app’
  • a remote startis done in ‘my_local_app’ by the
    ‘remote_app_control_class’ calling ‘system “#{path}/script/
    start_remote_app”’

i can only assume, that there is a problem with the environment ENV or
something similar. is there a way of getting a clean/fresh ENV for my
system call (so that it is just like i would have started it
manually)?

thanks again
dominik

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On 21 Okt., 09:43, none [email protected] wrote:

current working directory is one obvious difference that does screw up
some things.

Fred

man, nevermind! i got it. and: you were right, of course! it was the
working directory.
i just had some other stuff failing, so my first tries with changing
the working directory failed as well.

just tried it again and succeeded.

thanks fred

ps: nice talk at the railsconf europe this year! building smaller apps
instead of one big one really got me thinking… thanks!