Rails won't execute backticked OS commands

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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 Willits <lists@ruby-forum.com>: