How can I load my own files to ruby? (Win XP)

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I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

There are no comments on this in the installation instructions and in
the faq(s) afaik.

Any help is appreciated. (No, I don't want to make a lot of other
installations to get it done.)
   Stephan.

P.S.: I have installed ruby 1.8.2 with the OneClickInstaller on
RubyForge.

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(I don't know about Windows, but I expect it's the same in this regard?).

If you start IRB from that directory, you should be able to require your file with a simple:

require 'myfile'

assuming your file is named 'myfile.rb'. You can also give full path/filename to require I think.

Alternatively, a quick and dirty way in IRB is to just do:

$: << 'E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby' # ?slashes?

when you first run IRB. From then, your directory will be in the library search path.

(Aside: Stick with it - IRB will quickly become one of the most valuable tools you have when learning Ruby :))

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On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:25:00 -0000, Stephan.Kassel@gmx.de <Stephan.Kassel@gmx.de> wrote:

I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

--
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk
"\e[1;31mL"

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e:
cd User\stk\Programming\Ruby
irb -r yourfile.rb or irb then requre 'yourfile.rb'

Am I missing something?

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On Thursday 01 December 2005 09:27, Stephan.Kassel@gmx.de wrote:

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

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The RUBYLIB environment variable lets you specify additional directories to be searched by 'require'. irb picks this up. Both ruby and irb (at least as of 1.8.2) support a -I option too.

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Stephan.Kassel@gmx.de wrote:

I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

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Thank you.

This was the answer I really needed. Also many thanks to Ross to
provide me with a quick workaround. My problem is solved. (Maybe until
the next time when I need to know something about useful environment
variables for ruby :wink:

Regards,
    Stephan.