Question

I have an application which I would like to use libreoffice to batch convert files to html. I have the following method:

def set_versioned_odt
  condition = %x(soffice --invisible --convert-to html /path/to/file.odt --outdir /path/to/dir/)

  if condition
    Rails.logger.info "This has been finished"
  else
    Rails.logger.info "This failed..."
  end

end

When I run this method in the application. It will return a failing statement; however, if I run this command in the rails console, soffice will process correctly. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong in the rails app?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Best guess is that soffice isn’t in the path. try specifying the full path to soffice.