From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-02-02T02:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the location of libraries


"Claus Spitzer" <docboobenstein@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bb13341905020109007036e0d3@mail.gmail.com...
> Greetings fellow rubyists!
> I am looking for a way of checking which location a library I use is
> at. Let me demonstrate with an example:
>
> Let's assume that I have a hypotetical programa program, foo.rb . That
> program requires a library, as in
>    require 'bar'
>
> The problem is, I have 4 different versions of bar.rb and one bar.so,
> and would like to know which one I am using. How would I go around
> figuring this out?

ruby -e '$LOAD_PATH.each {|dir| p Dir[File.join(dir,"bar.*")]}'
ruby -e 'puts $LOAD_PATH.select {|dir| !
Dir[File.join(dir,"bar.*")].empty?}'

Kind regards

    robert