Ruby system command not working outside console

Question

I am trying to run growlnotify from inside a ruby script. The command I am using is this system("growlnotify Test -m message").

If I use the terminal to execute the script it works fine. If I use Textmate to run the script or Geektool (the eventual target of the script) it does not ever run the growlnotify part. Each other part of the script runs using Textmate or Geektool, but only using the terminal causes Growl to launch a notification window.

Anyone used this tool before?

Answer 1

Is growlnotify in the PATH that TextMate uses?

Try passing the complete path to growlnotify: ie /usr/local/bin/growlnotify

Answer 2

I just tried grownnotify out. So I can answer your question. Somebody did use this tool before. Me!

Answer 3

A backtick is the little apostrophe like mark on the same key as the tilde.

\growlnotify -m message\ does the same thing as system("growlnotify -m message") except it also gives you the output of the command.

Another variation is %x{growlnotify -m message}

Note: escaped backticks don't display correctly on this page, although they do in the post preview