From: Cary Fitzhugh <cfitzhugh@...360.com>
Date: 2008-11-05T02:48:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Wrapping ruby into one directory

Thanks.

Can I move /myspecial/dir to /mynewspcial/dir/45 and it still runs just fine?

Doesn't this hard-code the locations of those files into the binary somewhere? I mean, ruby needs to know where to look 
for it's /site/1.8 libs... is that hardcoded, or is it possible that that is a relative path... how cool would that be.
I guess I have the source so I could change that.  Anyone have any idea where in the ruby source it puts that value?

Thanks,
Cary

Robert Dober wrote:
> As long as you install from source that should not be a problem, I
> have done it before to carry my Ruby with me on a thumbdrive.*
> 
> When you do
> ./configure --help
> you will see a lot of different options, but if IIRC, all you have to do is
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/myspecial/dir
> 
> And you can call your ruby with a full path then.
> 
> HTH
> Robert