Ok, thanks for the help, I changed the path for the system command
execution and did the trick, I don't really know what was the problem
but hope it won't come back...^^

Anyway, thanks for taking time to respond to my question ;)

Olivier.

On 21 mayo, 14:44, Michael Steinfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> try piping it to STDOUT see if you get anywhere. Ex:
> sh.system("ls", "-l") | sh.head > STDOUT
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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.- Ocultar texto de la cita -
>
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