From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T09:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby under cygwin & windows paths

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:23:51 +0100, Robert Klemme  
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>

If it does indeed work (Which I can't, or rather won't test), it  
indubitably is. Wrapper scripts are just a hack that first came to mind  
since I use them for a few other things - notably automagically running ri  
in glorious ANSI technicolour and paging it via less, and basically  
emulating alias on CMD.

The global environment change has a pitfall if RUBYLIB happens to be set  
systemwide, but that shouldn't be the case, and even if so, I think  
user-set PATH-like environment variables always come first in the final  
value.

David Vallner