From: aurelianito <aurelianocalvo@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T03:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBYLIB on Windows

Thank you very much, the third option worked like a charm (ruby -S
arf_cmp.rb).

Aureliano.


Stefan Lang wrote:
> On Friday 04 November 2005 16:27, aurelianito wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm using the excelent ruby one click installer's ruby on windows,
> > but I'm unable to add a folder to the path that ruby uses to fetch
> > the scripts.
> >
> > I have a script named arf_cmp.rb in C:\devel\scripts\test_scripts.
> > So I've set RUBYLIB=C:\devel\scripts\test_scripts (environment
> > variable). But when I run: "ruby arf_cmp.rb" the error "ruby: No
> > such file or directory -- arf_cmp.rb (LoadError)" is shown. If I
> > run the script using the full path "ruby
> > C:\devel\scripts\test_scripts\arf_cmp.rb" it runs flawlessly.
> >
> > I've tried to set the following variables:
> > RUBYLIB
> > RUBY_LIB
> > RUBY_PATH
> > LOAD_PATH
> >
> > How can I do to run the script without hardcoding the entire path?
>
> Put your script in Ruby's bindir. This command:
>     ruby -r rbconfig -e "puts Config::CONFIG['bindir']"
> will print it, on Windows something like "C:\ruby\bin".
>
> The OneClick Installer usually sets up the file extension
> association *.rb => Ruby interpreter, thus you should be
> able to run your script by typing its name with the .rb extension,
> like:
>     arf_cmp.rb
>
> And if that doesn't work, try:
>     ruby -S arf_cmp.rb
>
> How does it work:
> When you install Ruby with the OneClick Installer, it permanently
> adds Ruby's bindir to the Path environment variable with the help
> of the registry. Whenever you start a program (not only a ruby
> script) from the console, the console will look for the program
> file in the directories listed in the Path environment variable
> and start the first it can find.
> 
> HTH,
>   Stefan