From: Mark Hulme Jones <ture@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T03:38:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Find::Bin, use lib, in ruby

Daniel Bretoi <lists@debonair.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> problem:
> 
> I have my own set of libraries located relative to my script in ../lib
> i.e. my configuration is something like
> 
> 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?

Adam Spiers, the co-developer of RubyPhoto, wrote a library to do this
that is included as part of the RubyPhoto distribution.  Grab
abspath.rb and findbin.rb from:

http://www.plig.net/~ture/rubyphoto/rubyphoto-latest/

and stick them in your site library directory.  You should then be
able to do things like:

require 'findbin'
$:.push FindBin::RealBin + "/../lib"

in your script, similar to how the Perl module works.  It even handles
symlinks the same as the Perl one, IIRC.

At some point he or I might even write documentation for it and parcel
it up separately, though it's not a terribly big module, so you should
be able to work out what's going on.

-- 
Mark Hulme-Jones < ture@plig.net >