Thanks–that’s what I figured. I’ve been with MT for like seven years now, and it’s honestly rare that I butt up against weird problems like this; in my experience, their shared hosting is much less restrictive than other shared hosts. And their support is usually superb–this has been the only time they’ve let me down, honestly. Ah well.
I’ll look into turning this into a reusable task in lib/tasks, then. Guess it’s a good opportunity to learn a bit more Ruby…hopefully my running around saves another (gs) customer some time.
PS: I’ve used Roots for the last year or so, and it’s made me a better developer. Bedrock is doing even more for me than Roots did in that regard. Awesome work on this stuff. Looking forward to the Vagrant stuff.