What user is your Rails app running as on the server? That would be my first suspect...
--Matt Jones On May 20, 3:47 pm, CiriusMex <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, well here comes my problem. I'm working on a function that will > generate PDF files automatically using files already existing. I'm > using pdftk utils to generate those files and everythings is working > just fine when testing in localhost on my laptop (I'm running windows > vista on it). But when I come to deploy the application on my server > (unix of course) and test the function, nothing occurs, seems that the > function is not executed (I don't even have a error message...). here > comes the code for the execution of the function: > > # Merging front page and PDF > system("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/products/pdftk #{RAILS_ROOT}/public/ > orders/order#{order.id}/products/frontPage#{product.id}.pdf # > {RAILS_ROOT}/public/products/#{formatedProductName}.pdf cat output # > {RAILS_ROOT}/public/orders/order#{params[:id]}/products/finalPDF# > {product.id}.pdf") > > while !File.exist?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/orders/order#{params[:id]}/ > products/finalPDF#{product.id}.pdf") > # We wait... > end > > RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info("\n\n#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/orders/order# > {params[:id]}/products/finalPDF#{product.id}.pdf created\n") > > # Generating password protected PDF > system("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/products/pdftk #{RAILS_ROOT}/public/ > orders/order#{params[:id]}/products/finalPDF#{product.id}.pdf output # > {RAILS_ROOT}/public/orders/order#{params[:id]}/products/# > {formatedProductName}_#{params[:firstname].tr('\'','')}_#{params > [:lastname].tr('\'','')}.pdf owner_pw #{adminAccessPassword} user_pw # > {customerAccessPassword}") > > while !File.exist?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/orders/order#{params[:id]}/ > products/#{formatedProductName}_#{params[:firstname].tr('\'','')}_# > {params[:lastname].tr('\'','')}.pdf") > # We wait... > end > > The files and paths are correct, I verified several times. pdftk is > correctly installed on the server (I tested executing those two > commands manualy on the server, it worked perfectly and I could get > the files generated). > > It's pretty urgent, I've tested changing "system" for backquotes and > nothing. Any idea would be welcome ^^? > > Olivier. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
