Hi folks. I've got a simple Kernel.system call which is failing:
system('svn', 'commit', '-q', '--non-interactive', '--message', 'File updated by dball', 'reports/2007-11-11.txt')
with exit code 256. When I run this from the command line, wrapping the final two parameters in double quotes, it runs fine. Any suggestions for what I may be doing wrong or where to look for debugging inspiration?
I'm on a win32 box, fwiw, running ruby-1.8.5. Do I need to be manually quoting the parameters to system? (Docs and previous experience suggest not, but I've been wrong before.)
- donald
Try to examine stderr output. Plus try to enclose the parameters with
spaces in double quotes--it's Windows anyway, so who knows, it might
work that way. 
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On Nov 12, 11:31 pm, "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.b...@nashville.gov> wrote:
Hi folks. I've got a simple Kernel.system call which is failing:
system('svn', 'commit', '-q', '--non-interactive', '--message', 'File updated by dball', 'reports/2007-11-11.txt')
with exit code 256. When I run this from the command line, wrapping the final two parameters in double quotes, it runs fine. Any suggestions for what I may be doing wrong or where to look for debugging inspiration?
I'm on a win32 box, fwiw, running ruby-1.8.5. Do I need to be manually quoting the parameters to system? (Docs and previous experience suggest not, but I've been wrong before.)
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Alex
> I'm on a win32 box, fwiw, running ruby-1.8.5. Do I need to
be manually
> quoting the parameters to system? (Docs and previous experience
> suggest not, but I've been wrong before.)
Try to examine stderr output. Plus try to enclose the
parameters with spaces in double quotes--it's Windows anyway,
so who knows, it might work that way.
I've switched to using the single argument version of system doing my
own quoting of parameters with spaces, and I continue to get a failing
error code. Here's what I'm doing now:
system("svn commit --non-interactive --message \"File added by dball\"")
after changing pwd to the root of the folder in which the svn repository
is checked out. Stderr reports:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository
'file:///z:/techserv/svn/intranet-files/reports'
The true svn repository is at file:///z:/techserv/svn/intranet-files,
while the file I added is in the reports directory.
I'd submit that this has nothing to do with ruby but for the fact that
when I run that command string from the win32 command shell, it works as
expected. I'm pretty much at a loss now, so if anyone has any
suggestions, no matter how bizarre, I'm all ears.
- donald
Try to check environment variables--do you get the same in
Kernel#system as when command running from shell?
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On Nov 14, 12:20 am, "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.b...@nashville.gov> wrote:
I'd submit that this has nothing to do with ruby but for the fact that
when I run that command string from the win32 command shell, it works as
expected. I'm pretty much at a loss now, so if anyone has any
suggestions, no matter how bizarre, I'm all ears.
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Cheers,
Alex