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Question

I have a Ruby script that I built in TextMate and can successfully run in TextMate. I can also successfully run this script straight from the terminal.

The script has th

Answer 1

Geektool runs all the commands from / so relative path names will not work when trying to run growlnotify.

puts Dir.pwd  #outputs "/"

You will need to pass the absolute paths of the images to growlnotify.

The current path can be retrieved with

File.dirname(__FILE__)

So you would use

theAuthorImage = File.dirname(__FILE__)

case theAuthor
  when 'James' : theAuthorImage += '/images/me32.png'
  when 'Zuzu'  : theAuthorImage += '/images/Zuzu32.png'
end

cmd = "/usr/local/bin/growlnotify '#{theAuthor} says' -m '#{theMessage}' -n 'Laurens Notes' --image '#{theAuthorImage}'"
puts cmd
system cmd