From: Grant Schoep Date: 2012-11-19T11:08:46+09:00 Subject: Re: adding load_path Best way to do this is add them at execute time with $LOAD_PATH I do this in your ruby script before the require. $LOAD_PATH.insert(0, '/home/username/apps/app1/lib') $LOAD_PATH.insert(0, '/home/username/apps/app2/lib') $LOAD_PATH.insert(0, '/home/username/apps/app3/lib') So what you pointed out I would think you would want to do, I broke it down into a few extra lines, just to keep a "one thing per line example" homeDir = "#{ENV['HOME']}" directoryOne = "#{homeDir}/OT/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/" directoryTwo = "#{homeDir}/OT/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/" $LOAD_PATH.insert(0, directoryOne) $LOAD_PATH.insert(0, directoryTwo) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.