From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2007-06-09T02:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails on a Mac, so strange (to me) behavior

Grant Hollingworth wrote:
> You don't need to use ./ when you already have a directory name 
> ('script' in this case) in the command.
> 
> 'script/server' is the same as './script/server'.
> 
> You only need ./ if you are already in the same directory as a command.
> 
>      cd script
>      ./server
> 
> Also, adding '.' to your PATH is generally a bad idea.  You might end up 
> running a command you didn't expect.

Yeah...I'm not really sure what I was thinking (probably shouldn't post 
before morning coffee...). As for the wisdom in adding '.' to PATH, my 
rule of thumb has always been NEVER for root/superuser accounts, 
normally no for user accounts, but for dev accounts (where I'll be 
compiling a lot of test code into directories not in PATH) it can be a 
bit of a time-saver. Oddly, though, I still end up typing 
'./my_ruby_prog.rb' half the time...

Cheers (and hope everything for the OP is working now!),

Josh

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