From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T04:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [OOT] rubygems: location of my gems

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:49:21 -0500, Nasir Khan wrote:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an easy way of finding the location of my installed gem
> programmatically.
> I need this to create an environment variable.
> 
> Thanks
> Nasir

__FILE__ will tell you the location of the file in which you use it. So 
when my SqlStatement gem is installed on Debian, the location of 
sqlstatement.rb is /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/SqlStatement-1.0.2/lib/
sqlstatement.rb, and I can find other paths in the directory tree by 
taking them relative to the known location of that file in my directory 
tree.

--Ken

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Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/