From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-11-05T11:33:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.4.6 - trouble with require path

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Ken Innes wrote:

> I inherited a project that uses Ruby 1.4.6 on a RedHat Linux 6.1J. I
> copied it onto my RedHat Linux 6.1J machine, but there is a problem
> when I try to build it; the ruby scripts are unable to find required
> files (located in the same directory as the scripts) when the script
> is executed from a different directory. I upgraded to Ruby 1.6.7,
> which fixed that problem, but the scripts are not quite compatible
> with the updated Ruby, so I had to revert to the version that was
> originally used.
>
> As an example, lets say I have two ruby scripts in a directory:
>     /scripts/script1.rb:
>          #!/usr/bin/ruby
>          require "script2"
>
>     /scripts/script2.rb:
>          print "Testing...\n"
>
>     Command Prompt:
>     [testing]# cd /scripts
>     [scripts]# script1.rb
>     Testing...
>     [scripts]# cd /testing
>     [testing]# script1.rb
>     script1.rb:2:in `require': No such file to load -- script2
> (LoadError)
>
> With Ruby 1.6.7, it works fine. With Ruby 1.4.6, it can find
> script1.rb, but not script2.rb.
>
> There must be a way to correct this, as the project apparently worked
> for the original developers. I'm using the same OS, and I added the
> same ruby options and script directory to my path as specified in
> their readme (well almost, they said put it in .cshrc, but I had to
> put it in .tcshrc for it to work):
>     setenv RUBYOPT '-Ke -rkconv'
>     set path = ( $path /scripts)
>
> I also tried the following:
>     setenv RUBYOPT '-Ke -rkconv -S'
>     setenv LOAD_PATH /scripts
>     setenv RUBYLIB /scripts
>
> So what am I missing here? Does anyone know how I can get this to work
> correctly WITHOUT ALTERING THE SCRIPTS (because there are hundreds of
> scripts)?

i can't help you at all, but i'm dying to know: what project have you
inherited with hundreds of 1.4.6?

-a
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