I am running Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 in a remote VPS machine running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I would like to know if it is possible to run some related Linux folder and file permission commands “directly” stating those in the RAILS_ROOT/config/environments/production.rb file. If so, how to accomplish that to set my RAILS_ROOT/public directory and its sub directories with 755 permissions?
I would like to make that because I would like to automate “setting” processes.
try this
check out: System call from Ruby