From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T01:12:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Integrations tests and $:

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:37:21 +0900
Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

> I have tried the following:
> 
>     system("ruby -r ../lib myapp")
> 
> but get the error:
> 
>    No such file to load -- ../lib (LoadError)

~$ echo '$var = "Hello, world!"' > /tmp/hello.rb
~$ ruby -r /tmp/hello.rb -e 'p $var'
"Hello, world!"
~$ ruby -I /tmp -e 'require "hello";p $var'
"Hello, world!"
~$ 

You want -I to add a path to $LOAD_PATH ($:'s sane alias). Or, as Brian
Candler pointed out, you could use RUBYLIB, probably the easiest option.

Jason Creighton