Can anyone give a quick explaination

Rails
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Hey all!

I’ve got an app on a shared host at the moment.

They load ruby gems into a dir onto my space: home/myusername/ruby/
gems/gems and recommend that you include this path by adding it to the
load_path like so:

$:.push(“home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems”)

My question is - is this the same as adding

config.load_paths += %w(home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems)

to the environment.rb file?

If so - cool!
If not, can anyone explain what the difference is?

Thanks

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On Apr 19, 8:29 pm, Gavin [email protected] wrote:

My question is - is this the same as adding

config.load_paths += %w(home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems)

to the environment.rb file?

If so - cool!
If not, can anyone explain what the difference is?

No - $: (and the various other names it has) is using by ruby when you
write require ‘foo’

config.load_paths (which eventually gets stored in
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_paths) is the set of paths that is
searched by rails’ magic loading stuff.

Fred

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Alrighty - thanks Fred

Out of curiosity Fred - do you or anyone else reading have much
experience with using RMagick on a shared host?

Having a major headache trying to get rails to load the RMagick gem
and my host’s technical help are not being so helpful

Thanks

Gavin

On Apr 19, 8:45 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]

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Not 100% sure what the difference is, but they’re both WRONG. Adding
gem directories like that to the load path will only work for suitably
small values of “work”. Try the instructions here:

http://blog.juliankamil.com/article/26/installing-your-own-ruby-gems-in-a-shared-hosting-environment

to get this set up correctly. It might not seem like a big deal at
first, but the method recommended by your provider will break if gems
depend on other gems in your local repository.

–Matt J.