From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T21:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and cygwin: supported?

Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> What exactly do you mean by this?  cygwin.com maintains a ruby
>> package so in a way you can say it's supported.
>
> I didn't know!

You could have easily checked.

> I just installed Ruby the "regular" way, and wanted to
> be able to invoque it from the Cygwin shell.

I guess you better deinstall it and fetch the ruby package from cygwin.

>  > Which things didn't work for you?
>
> For instance, when using gem:
>
> c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory --
> /cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/gem (LoadError)
>
> I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the
> Cygwin way of naming directories.

Probably.  Note that there are cygpath and File.join().  I didn't try to
use gems with cygwin yet.

Cheers

    robert