php:: how long to tmp files stay?

You're just passing the last line to html2text , and you are not using html2text correctly do this instead :

import html2text
import sys

print html2text.html2text(sys.stdin.read())

Not the answer you're looking for - but I can definitively say that there's no configuration option to change where Rails thinks the tmp folder is. The location is hard coded in many different places in the Rails codebase.

Looks like the symlink will sync the original file, so you'll probably have the same locking problems.

If you do, then you can just use the symlinks the other way around to solve your problem, ie. create your project outside your dropbox, and symlink everything other than tmp into a folder in your dropbox.

So you might have your Rails app in ~/work/rails_project/<all the rails dirs including tmp> and then you'll have a corresponding dir in your dropbox, like ~/dropbox/rails_project and then inside that dir you'll manually create a bunch of symlinks and then delete the tmp one, using bash you'd do this:

$ for f in ~/work/rails_project/*; do ln -s $f; done
$ rm tmp

You'd need to remember to run that again if you ever added a new file/directory to the root of your app.