From: 13 <one.three@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T23:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby settings, path/env/lib etc.

Hi,

I don't think that Desktop\bin is the best place to install something
valuable, because it's full path contains white spaces. In my case
it's: "C:\Documents and Settings\martinsgr\Desktop"

--
Martins

On 7/24/06, Rube N00b <nbnntp1@ml1.net> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I just downloaded the ruby one click installer. I am on a windows
> machine with no administrator rights. I install all my personal apps to
> desktop/bin.
>
> SciTe wouldn't run properly until I edited the properties to point to
> the ruby interpreter; now F5 works fine to compile/run.
>
> I also ended up finding out the hard way that I need to do
> | require 'rubygems'
> before I could require anything else.
>
> Still, simple examples do not work, usually failing with
> |uninitialized constant XXX (NameError)
>
> I assume this is because the lib directory etc. could not be found.
>
> Is there a central place where I can manually change settings?
> For example, I just found out about "$:" -- is there a resource that
> discusses all the setup/settings/env-vars for ruby? (on windows?)
>
> thanks!
>
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