From: Reacher <brandon.g.jones@...>
Date: 2008-02-08T00:59:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV

On Feb 7, 9:52 am, RVC planning <mcintosh80...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mac OS X example scripts have the command (directive/statement/?)...
> ENV['BRIDGE_SUPPORT_PATH'] = '/Volumes/Data/src/svn-rubycocoa-apple/
> framework/bridge-support'
>
> I can't find any write-up of this line anywhere. It's in
> RSSPhotoViewer in Developer/Examples/Ruby/RubyCocoa/RSSPhotoViewer/
> rb_main.rb
>
> Can someone please explain what this is, what it does, and where it is
> documented?

I've never worked on a Mac, but the ENV hash en ruby is a mechanism
for accessing environment variables.

This:

# in ruby
ENV['PATH'] = '/usr/bin'

is equivalent to this:

/* in csh */
setenv PATH "/usr/bin"