On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 12:56:28 PM UTC+1, Sam S wrote:
>
> Inside the controller the ruby script is run with  the **exec** command.
>
>      script_exec = exec("ruby 
> /Code/AttendanceReport/attn/bin/scripts/Spreadsheet_proper.rb '#{city}' 
> '#{date1}' '#{date2}'")
>
>
>  
exec replaces the current process, so this is not surprising
 

>
> The above approach kills the rails server and doesn't execute the ruby 
> script. And hence I used
>
>      script_exec = %x{ruby 
> /Code/AttendanceReport/attn/bin/scripts/Spreadsheet_proper.rb '#{city}' 
> '#{date1}' '#{date2}' }
>      
>           script_exec = system("ruby 
> /Code/AttendanceReport/attn/bin/scripts/Spreadsheet_proper.rb '#{city}' 
> '#{date1}' '#{date2}'")
>
> The above **%x** and **system** approaches also fail when run rails server 
> is started with -d. But it does work when the rails server is normally.
>
>
>
In what way do they fail?  

Fred

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