I'm experiencing a weird situation with deleting files in Ruby, the code seems to report correctly, but the physical file isn't removed from my hard drive. I can do rm path/to/file
on the command line - that works. I can even open up the Rails console and File.safe_unlink the file and that also works, it's just within my Rails app it fails to delete the actual file:
def destroy
Rails.logger.debug local_path #=> /Users/ryan/.../public/system/.../file.jpg
Rails.logger.debug File.exist?(local_path) #=> true
File.safe_unlink(local_path)
Rails.logger.debug File.exist?(local_path) #=> false
# yet the physical file actually STILL exists!
end
The physical file is within a Git repo (the repo is stored within /public/system/) any gotchas with that? I've tried using the ruby-git gem to delete the file using the rm command it provides, but that doesn't delete the file either.
I've opened up all the permissions on the files during testing and still nothing works. I've also confirmed this with File.writable?(local_path) which returned true.
Any thoughts why it could be preventing the file from being removed?
Cheers.