From: Richard Turner <richard@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T20:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby require LoadError

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:05 +0900, Richard Turner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to require a file in a mod_ruby script I'm running and,
> although I've eliminated the SecurityError that was being thrown by
> untainting the string I've added to $:, now I see a LoadError instead.
> Here's a snippet of the code:
> 
> def displaySections
>     $:.unshift("/home/rjt/sara/trunk/src/client/".untaint)
>     require 'soap/rpc/driver'
>     require 'page'
>     ...
> end
> 
> The error, from Apache's log, is:
> 
> [Wed Jan 26 10:49:19 2005] [error]
> mod_ruby: /home/rjt/sara/trunk/src/public_html/sections.rbx:33:in
> `require': No such file to load -- page (LoadError)
> 
> The script works fine from the command-line unless I set $SAFE = 3 (i.e.
> it still works with $SAFE = 1 and $SAFE = 2).
> 
> I am perplexed :(
> 

D'oh!  Apologies for replying to myself, but I've realised what the
problem was.  Stupidly I'd neglected to chmod 755 .../client/ :(

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."