From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T01:25:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Load path for eruby

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:49:33PM +0900, Patrick Roemer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to include app-specific files that are not on
> the regular load path into my eruby file. Using plain ruby
> I would specify the load path with '-I'. This switch doesn't
> seem to be available with eruby. What would be the best way
> to access these files other than a) putting them in the same
> directory as the eruby file or b) altering the global load
> path?

I'm not sure what you mean by "altering the global load path".  I'm
taking it to mean re-compiling ruby with an alternate load path
defaults. Within the script you can alter the $LOAD_PATH variable.

$LOAD_PATH.unshift('/path/to/somewhere')

PS. I just found out that $: works with ruby -e but not $LOAD_PATH. Hmm..

Or, you could always give require a fully specified path

require '/usr/lib/myrubylib/stuff.rb'

Either way, you might want to place this type of code in some sort of
config file so that you're not always rewriting your paths when you
move your files.

-alan

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