From: Bernhard 'elven' Stoeckner <elven@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T22:43:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Include Dirs for libs

Florian Assmann scribbled on Tuesday 14 Mar 2006 14:33:

> Hi there,
> 
> does anybody know which are the default dirs for ruby to search its
> .rb's and .so's?
> 
> I tried to include postgres-pr but ruby fails finding it. It's residing
> in my ruby/gems/1.8/ dir. I don't know it's really installed this way.
> 
> Sincerly,
> 
> Florian

elven@avariel ~ $ ruby -e 'puts $:'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux
..
elven@avariel ~ $     

Gems is a somewhat different matter:

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'activerecord'

See also http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/4