How to add an exe to Rails app

Rails
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I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there
is
an easy way:

I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf

I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on
purpose
and want to keep it this way.

My code wants to execute wkhtmltopdf:

# tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf
%x[wkhtmltopdf-amd64 #{html_path} #{new_pdf_path}]

But it is not found… is there a way I can tell my rails app to look in
vendor/wkhtmltopdf for the exe?

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On Nov 15, 2:50am, David K. [email protected] wrote:

tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf

%x[wkhtmltopdf-amd64 #{html_path} #{new_pdf_path}]

But it is not found… is there a way I can tell my rails app to look in
vendor/wkhtmltopdf for the exe?

Easiest thing is probably to construct the full path to your binary
rather than relying on what may or may not be in $PATH

Fred

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David K. wrote in post #961433:

I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there
is
an easy way:

I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf

I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on
purpose
and want to keep it this way.

Why?

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]