Rails won't execute backticked OS commands

Rails
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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)

– gw

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There is probably no or different path. Try with an absolute file name,
e.g.,
/usr/bin/commmand args.

HTH,
Jeffrey

Quoting Greg W. [email protected]: