Question

I am trying to write a file via shell command in Rails..

Basically I have this:

def self.collect_videos

  %x[cd public/videos/ && exec viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0]
     sleep(30)
end

viddl is essentially this: https://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb

It works fine just from rails console, but not when called as a function from Rails app..

How to fix it?

Answer 1

The question was answered thanks to Mattias Wadman. Could not mark comment as answer though.