rails won"t execute a perl script in the same folder as the controller

I have a simple method

  def execperl
  system("perl myscript.pl")
  redirect_to :controller => :mycontroller, :action => :index
  end

Where I put this mycontroller (that contains index and execperl) in the same folder as the myscript.pl.

However, when I execute the method, it just go back to index, and when I see the console, no sign that myscript.pl is executed. If I execute myscript.pl manually using perl myscript.pl, it works just fine

How can I execute myscript.pl in the same location as the mycontroller file?

Thank y开发者_开发百科ou for any answer.

|edit I read that in the log, it is written "can't open perl script myscript.pl" No such file or directory.

Do I have to specify the location of the script in system("perl myscript.pl")? How can I do that?

Try doing:

system("/usr/bin/perl #{Rails.root}/app/controllers/myscript.pl")

Your current working directory is not the directory your script is in. The path to your script is something like:

File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "myscript.pl")