From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-10-14T22:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Hey you! Stop using relative requires!

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for further clarification read:
http://gist.github.com/54177

<http://gist.github.com/54177>and

http://www.untilnil.com/2009/02/25/require-principle_of_least_surprise

<http://www.untilnil.com/2009/02/25/require-principle_of_least_surprise>

2009/10/14 Anthony Metcalf <anthony.metcalf@anferny.me.uk>

> Intransition wrote:
> > * Don't mess with the $LOAD_PATH. PERIOD.
> > * Use relative lookup only when you must, eg. using bundled HTML
> > templates.
> > * Any relative paths you do use must remain within the confines of
> > their main directory (eg. lib/)
> > * Don't use a relative lookup for any ,rb or .so/.dll loading. PERIOD.
> > * Oh, and it should never need to necessary to require 'rubygems'.
> >
> >
> Ok, I just finished "packaging"[1] my first app, and the only way I
> could find that described how to do it, including the pickaxe book (for
> ruby 1.9), breaks all but the last of those rules.
>
> Care to enlighten me?
>
> I have a structure of:
>
> App
>  |----> bin -> app.rb
>  |----> initdb.rb
>  |----> lib
>           |----> models -> *.rb
>           |----> views -> *.rb
>           |----> controllers -> *.rb
>  |----> config -> database.yaml
>  |----> db -> *.sqlite
>
> I'm using wxRuby for the gui, ActiveRecord for the DB access, and
> obviously, sqlite for the db.
>
> How do I :
>
> 1) Make it so that I can call ruby <path to bin>/app.rb from anywhere in
> the filesystem and have my app work?
> 2) Make 1) true for Linux, Windows and MacOSX?
>
> Regards
>
> Anthony
>
>
> [1] because it isn't actually packaged yet, just internally consistent....
>
>

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