From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T17:26:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20693] Re: best way to handle $: when embedding ruby

Hi,

At Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:34:22 +0900,
Rolando Abarca wrote in [ruby-core:20665]:
> I'm trying to embed ruby in an iPhone App, and so, I have to follow  
> apple rules: I can't just install it in /usr, it has to live inside my  
> app bundle (the app home). I have successfully included ruby, libruby- 
> static.a and a simple script works just fine.

Is iPhone also Darwin?  I don't know how it differs from OS X,
now ruby 1.8 is pre-installed in /usr on OS X 10.5.

> I'm concerned on how the $: global variable will be filled though,  
> because AFAIK it is created with compile-time static strings that will  
> not reflect the real directories in my app. So far, this is what I'm  
> doing:
> 
> void init_ruby_stuff() {
> 	ruby_init();
> 
> 	NSString *rubydir = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"lib"  
> ofType:nil inDirectory:@"ruby"];

How can you get that directory in C?

-- 
Nobu Nakada