From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T00:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with relative paths using require

Hi --

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, typemismatch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having a lot of problems trying to "require" my own .rb files from
> a lib folder in my project.
>
> My structure is simple enough.
>
> app\
> app\lib
> app\feature
> app\feature2
>
> I have all shared code in \lib and in any feature code I do a require
> '..\lib\whatever.rb'
>
> It runs fine locally but if I run on a server using Cron or a Daemon
> the base path seems to be always set to something else so ..\lib
> doesn't exist. My server and my dev. environments are very different
> so it means hacking server deployments to find library files.
>
> What is the correct method here? To wrap my lib code in a gem?

Does Tony Arcieri's require_rel (part of require_all) help?
http://github.com/tarcieri/require_all/tree/master


David

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