From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T19:01:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby under cygwin & windows paths

2006/1/14, David Vallner <david@vallner.net>:
> 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 nice thing about modifying the env is that you can create a
default location for your self written lib scripts that and you can
always access them without additional hassle.  Wrapper scripts are
just plan ugly IMHO.

> 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.

I would only set it globally if the libs are intended to be used by
all users. About precedence: user settings always override global
settings but you can also use the global setting to define a user
variable, e.g. PATH=%PATH%;M:\y\local\path

Kind regards

robert