From: Alan Davies <SPAMSPAM.alan.davies@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T02:58:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Find::Bin, use lib, in ruby

I've run into this problem before, i.e. your script is stored in a different
location to the current dir, and requires a file from the same directory as
itself.  I simply put this at the top of my files:

$LOAD_PATH << File.dirname(__FILE__.gsub(/\\/, '/'))

The gsub is needed on Windows systems because dirname only works with
forward slashes (is there any plan to fix this it's a pain).

(I also prefer using $LOAD_PATH because I hate all that $: nonsence... its
completely unreadable)

Alan


"ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.53.0303201609120.1795@eli.fsl.noaa.gov...
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian Candler wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:03:09AM +0900, Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> > > rubyscripts/bin/script.rb
> > > rubyscripts/lib/libforscript.rb
> > >
> > > How can I tell script.rb where to look for libforscript.rb without
> > > having to use absolute paths?
> >
>
>
> > $:.unshift "../lib"
> > require "libforscript.rb"
>
> what if you were in /usr/bin/ while running script.rb?  the '../lib' needs
to
> be relative to the location of script.rb, not the current working
directory.
>
> -a
>
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