From: rashworth <rashworth@...>
Date: 2001-03-18T06:56:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12791] Re: Library packaging

I have a different question:

Subject: Simple Tk Application, page 153 in your Programming Ruby.

What is the correct procedure to run this example?

When I use "Run Ruby Program" the output window flashes open
and then closes quickly.

When I use the Ruby Interpreter (Ruby only icon), nothing happens
on my PC with the Windows ME. I am using Ruby 1.6.1.

Thank you.

ERA

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:03:13 +0900

>matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
>
>> |I think there's a simpler solution to the original problem: add the
>> |directory from which the main Ruby program was run to the search path
>> |if SAFE is 0. So, if I say
>> |
>> |   ruby ../../demo/fred.rb
>> |
>> |then '../../demo' will be prepended to $:
>> 
>> This has been proposed several times (in Japanese list), but I
>> couldn't find the portable and reliable way to get the base path of
>> the executable file on UNIX flavored OS.  Can you?
>
>I guess there are two cases:
>
>   1. When the program is run using:
>
>             ruby  <path_to_rb>  <options>
>
>      Then you know the path, and all's well
>
>   2. When the program's run using a shebang line, then you may or may 
>      not get the path to the .rb file included. On Linux, this
>      doesn't seem to be a problem. What's the status with other
>      Unices?
>
>
>Dave
>