From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-06-05T03:35:07+09:00
Subject: help with require, symlinks

I'm on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want  
to keep them in my home directory so i don't lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ 
myrubylib

it made the link. observe:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ cd myrubylib
curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib curi$ ls
curi.rb

however:

require "curi" # can't find the file

require "/Users/curi/me/rubylib/curi" # this works
require "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib/curi" # this works too

not sure what i'm doing wrong or how to do this properly..

BTW:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ ruby -e "puts $:"
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
.


-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/