[Radiance-general] Rtcontrib inside of script

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Hi Lars,

Yeah, I have a similar check in my script right now to debug this, and the
variables are all being expanded correctly. I think the error lies further
up the chain now. I'll let ya know what I find out!

- Rob

On 8/19/10 4:24 AM, "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Rob!
> 
>> ...does not work. Fail. Boo. What I end up with is just a single
>> treg000.hdr. Any ideas why? I have a feeling the system doesn't like the
>> vwrays call inside of the rtcontrib call. Anyone know how to pass this
>> through from Ruby without a problem?
> 
> I am calling rtcontrib from inside bash-scripts, and it works fine.
> Probably this is some Ruby-specific problem. I tend to insert a
> print-command right in front of the command call to see whether all
> variable names and such get resolved as expected. In my experience,
> quoting and typos are the worst origins of errors in interpreted scripts
> (and the reason people like compiled languages doing much more checks).
> 
> Cheers, Lars.
>