From: Dave Montalvo <davemontalvo@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T11:01:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and cygwin: supported?

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to invoke a win version of ruby from the cygwin shell, just add an alias to
it in your .profile file:

alias ruby=3D'/cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/ruby'

dave

On 11/22/05, Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I ran into this problem a while ago: Uninstall your native Windows
> version, and get the cygwin version. It's really hard (impossible,
> maybe) to make the native version play nicely with cygwin. I also had
> to recompile Ruby from source, as one of the bundled cygwin binaries
> kept crashing.
>
> Jacob
>
> On 11/22/05, Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, 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! I just installed Ruby the "regular" way, and wanted to
> be able
> > > to invoque it from the Cygwin shell.
> > >
> > > > 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)
> >
> > Did you install rubygems in the same way as you installed your
> > cygwin ruby?  The paths are setup with respect to the ruby you are
> > using it with.
> > >
> > > I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the
> Cygwin way of
> > > naming directories.
> >
> > They are effectively two separate installs.   You probably want your
> > .bashrc or _bashrc to sort out the paths properly for cygwin as
> > well.  it should not be looking for ruby stuff in /cygrdrive/c/ruby
> > because that is the C:\ruby directory that the Windows setup uses,
> > which has ruby built against different DLL files.  The default ruby
> > install will put ruby in /usr/local/bin/ruby and so on.  And ruby
> > built from sources does not have rubygems built in.
> > >
> > > Pascal
> > >
> >         Hugh
> >
> >
>

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