From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T03:51:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Crobjob problem with ruby script.

> I've had problems with paths in cronjobs even just running shell
> scripts.  What I recall mostly is that the current directory was
> something useless, and "~" was not the home directory.  I made
> everything work by using all absolute pathes.  I don't think that
> would be desirable for a require statement, but I expect it would make
> it work.

As have I. I am routinely annoyed by the lack of environment
initialization under most cron daemons.

> (I don't actually know how require finds the files; I'm guessing
> that's what $LOAD_PATH is for?)

Yeah, or its shorthand $:

Thankfully that's not in the process environment.