From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-10-16T02:28:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Setting Environmental Variables in Ruby script On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:06 AM, jackster the jackle wrote: > I have a scipt that executes a shell command that requires my > environment to be set so the script fails. Is there a way to add my > profile settings into my ruby script? > > Thanks > > jack > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > cfp:~ > cat this-is-a-bash-question.sh #! /bin/bash --login echo $FOO cfp:~ > ./this-is-a-bash-question.sh (nothing) cfp:~ > grep FOO .bash_profile (nothing) cfp:~ > echo 'export FOO=42' >> .bash_profile cfp:~ > ./this-is-a-bash-question.sh 42 a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama