Ruby on Rails

On Nov 15, 2:50 am, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote:
> I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there is
> an easy way:
>
> I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in:
> rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf
>
> I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on purpose
> and want to keep it this way.
>
> My code wants to execute wkhtmltopdf:
>
>     # tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf
>     %x[wkhtmltopdf-amd64 #{html_path} #{new_pdf_path}]
>
> But it is not found... is there a way I can tell my rails app to look in
> vendor/wkhtmltopdf for the exe?

Easiest thing is probably to construct the full path to your binary
rather than relying on what may or may not be in $PATH

Fred

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