Ruby, Mac, Geektool question, file access rights?

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

Try wrapping it all in a block like below, which will log to /tmp/geektool.txt. Then you can see if there are any exceptions happening that you aren't aware of (like file permission).

begin
  #file.open... etc
rescue Exception => e
  file.open('/tmp/geektool.txt', 'w'){|f| f.puts "#{e}\n\n#{e.backtrace}"}
end

Also, don't forget there's the ruby-growl gem.