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Ruby on Rails - Can't seem to figure out how to write/modify files on the live site

This works just fine in my dev environment (I am rewriting a css file):

File.open(RAILS_ROOT + '\public\stylesheets\colors.css', 'w') do |w|  
    w.puts 'some_text'
end

But when I run it in my prod environment (on Dreamhost) nothing happens - the file is not modified - nothing.

What I need to be able to do is to overwrite an existing file, which I can't seem to figure out in production. I even set the chmod to 777 and that didn't change anything, it also doesn't appear that anything is showing up in the logs?

I am a noob in RoR, I appreciate the help.

Solution

  • You are writing to a file called \public\stylesheets\colors.css when you would really like to write to a file called colors.css in /public/stylesheets/

    Backslash, \, is a valid filename character in POSIX filesystems, but is the directory separator in NTFS. Change your backslashes to forward slashes.