From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T08:23:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby under cygwin & windows paths

Interestingly enough my news posting didn't make it to the mail side
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/50b3c1b275cd0c6d

I still think modifying the environment is a better approach than
writing wrapper scripts.

cheers

robert


2006/1/13, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a script located under
>     c:\mypath\myscript.rb
> which has
>     require 'mylib'
> (I have another file c:\mypath\mylib.rb.)
>
> If I call ruby, the cygwin executable is called (I have no admin
> rights on the computer, so I can't afford to install another native
> windows version of ruby.)
>
> Now the problem:
> If I go to c:\mypath and call myscript from there, everything works OK.
> File.dirname(__FILE__) is set to "/cygdrive/c/mypath" and properly
> included in $LOAD_PATH.
>
> But if I execute the script from somewhere else, inclusion doesn't
> work any more:
>
> C:/mypath/myscript.rb:10:in `require': No such file to load -- mylib (LoadError)
>         from C:/mypath/myscript.rb:10
>
> since File.dirname(__FILE__) is now set to "c:\mypath" and this one
> also gets included in $LOAD_PATH. But cygwin cannot access that path
> by default.
>
> After adding
>     $LOAD_PATH << '/cygdrive/c/mydir'
> to the script it works again, but I may not afford to modify the
> script by hardcoding the path into it since it has to work on other
> computers as well.
>
> Is there a way to modify the script (in a compatible way with the rest
> of the world) or (preferrably) to change the settings in cygwin
> somehow, so that the inclusion will work again without hardcoding the
> path?
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>     Mojca Miklavec
>
>