Help with require, symlinks

I’m on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want
to keep them in my home directory so i don’t lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
myrubylib

it made the link. observe:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ cd myrubylib
curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib curi$ ls
curi.rb

however:

require “curi” # can’t find the file

require “/Users/curi/me/rubylib/curi” # this works
require “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib/curi” # this works too

not sure what i’m doing wrong or how to do this properly…

BTW:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby curi$ ruby -e “puts $:”
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0
.

– Elliot T.

Elliot T. wrote:

curi-g5:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myrubylib curi$ ls

– Elliot T.
Curiosity Blog – Elliot Temple

Might it be simpler for you to just add your home directory to Ruby’s
search path by using the RUBYLIB environment variable?

export RUBYLIB=/Users/curi/me/rubylib

On Jun 4, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Elliot T. wrote:

I’m on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want
to keep them in my home directory so i don’t lose them.

Try this:

.profile/.bash_profile/.whatever

export RUBYLIB="$HOME/to/your/files

Straight out of Ruby’s man page.

$ man ruby

– Daniel

On Jun 4, 2006, at 20:35, Elliot T. wrote:

I’m on OS X 10.4.6

i want to be able to require my files without the full path. i want
to keep them in my home directory so i don’t lose them. i tried:

sudo ln -s /Users/curi/me/rubylib /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
myrubylib

require “curi” # can’t find the file

Others have already mentioned RUBYLIB, but let me note that the very
myrubylib under site_ruby is not in $:. Thus, you’d need to specify
the parent directoy as well:

require ‘myrubylib/curi’

You load the core library smtp.rb as ‘net/smtp’ because of the same
reason, smtp.rb lives in

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb

and the directory in the load path there is /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8.

RUBYLIB is the canonical solution to that, but at least you know why
your test is not working.

– fxn