From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T22:15:51+09:00
Subject: Re: practices

On 4/19/06, Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
>
> If I have a safemode > 0 and files in ~/lib/ how would I use them?
> I can't edit the system environment in this case.
> Would I convert the ~/ to the fullpath and use require:
>
> require '/home/username/lib/noclass'
>
> ?

I think a fairly common idiom in cases like this (one I have used
myself) is to add to the LOAD_PATH within your script (at the top
before your requires):

$LOAD_PATH.unshift '~/lib'

Then require will check in ~/lib for scripts before checking the other
default locations.

Ryan