From: Greg Willits <lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T07:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: how modify $: permanently?

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Greg Willits wrote:
>> Is there a way to add a path to $: permanently so I don't have to append
>> a path at the start of every script that needs it?
> 
> Use the RUBYLIB environment variable. From man ruby:
> 
> RUBYLIB         A colon-separated list of directories that are added to
>                  Ruby?s library load path ($:). Directories from this
>                  environment variable are searched before the standard
>                  load path is searched.
> 
>                  e.g.:
>                        RUBYLIB="$HOME/lib/ruby:$HOME/lib/rubyext"

took me a bit to put that all together (not a nix geek), but got it now. 
Thanks.

I added this to my PROFILE

export RUBYLIB=$RUBYLIB:/usr/local/lib/ruby/.....  etc for what I needed

-- gw

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