Help with require, symlinks

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I'm on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want to keep them in my home directory so i don't lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib

it made the link. observe:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ cd myrubylib
curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib curi$ ls
curi.rb

however:

require "curi" # can't find the file

require "/Users/curi/me/rubylib/curi" # this works
require "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib/curi" # this works too

not sure what i'm doing wrong or how to do this properly..

BTW:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ ruby -e "puts $:"
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
.

-- Elliot Temple

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Elliot Temple wrote:

I'm on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want to keep them in my home directory so i don't lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib

it made the link. observe:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ cd myrubylib
curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib curi$ ls
curi.rb

however:

require "curi" # can't find the file

require "/Users/curi/me/rubylib/curi" # this works
require "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib/curi" # this works too

not sure what i'm doing wrong or how to do this properly..

BTW:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ ruby -e "puts $:"
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
.

-- Elliot Temple
Curiosity Blog – Elliot Temple

Might it be simpler for you to just add your home directory to Ruby's search path by using the RUBYLIB environment variable?

export RUBYLIB=/Users/curi/me/rubylib

3

Try this:

# .profile/.bash_profile/.whatever

export RUBYLIB="$HOME/to/your/files

Straight out of Ruby's man page.

$ man ruby

-- Daniel

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On Jun 4, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:

I'm on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want to keep them in my home directory so i don't lose them.

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I'm on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want to keep them in my home directory so i don't lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib

<snip>

require "curi" # can't find the file

Others have already mentioned RUBYLIB, but let me note that the very myrubylib under site_ruby is *not* in $:. Thus, you'd need to specify the parent directoy as well:

   require 'myrubylib/curi'

You load the core library smtp.rb as 'net/smtp' because of the same reason, smtp.rb lives in

   /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb

and the directory in the load path there is /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8.

RUBYLIB is the canonical solution to that, but at least you know why your test is not working.

-- fxn

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On Jun 4, 2006, at 20:35, Elliot Temple wrote: