> Looks like you're in a Rails application. Where does convert.rb live? > What's your working directory when you're trying to run it? > > Are you familiar with Rails? If not, then check out the guides at > http://guide.rails.info , and post further questions to the Rails list > if they're applicable more to the Rails framework than to the Ruby > language. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > marnen / marnen.org These are the scripts that a rails application calls on, yes. However, I am running the scripts as they are on the server and not by using rails if that makes sense. I would run it like so: echo admin | ruby convert.rb The convert.rb script lives in: /usr/home/admin/email_conversion/ The working directory is: /usr/home/admin/rails/nuser/lib/gappsprovisioning Further info: We use gmail and these scripts convert users from our database to gmail using the Google API. If I am wrong and need to repost in rails section let me know and I will. I have been wrong once before :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.