Git-rails init can't find HOME environment

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I’m trying to teach myself version control using GIT on a Windows
machine for my ROR development. I downloaded and ran the cygwin and it
created the following files:
‘./.bashrc’ -> ‘/home/Wayne//.bashrc’
‘./.bach_profile’ -> ‘/home/Wayne//.bash_profile’
‘./.inputrc’ -> ‘/home/Wayne//.inputrc’

Wayne@Gateway ~
$

I also installed the gem git-rails

I’ve created a project and did a cd to that project.

Now when I run get-rails init I receive what looks like an error
finding my HOME path as follows:

            C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-

rails:12:in expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding~’ (ArgumentError)
from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-rails:12
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19:in `load’
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19

Any ideas?

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[email protected] wrote:

I’m trying to teach myself version control using GIT on a Windows
machine for my ROR development. I downloaded and ran the cygwin and it
created the following files:
‘./.bashrc’ → ‘/home/Wayne//.bashrc’
‘./.bach_profile’ → ‘/home/Wayne//.bash_profile’
‘./.inputrc’ → ‘/home/Wayne//.inputrc’

Wayne@Gateway ~
$

I also installed the gem git-rails

I’ve created a project and did a cd to that project.

Now when I run get-rails init I receive what looks like an error
finding my HOME path as follows:

            C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-

rails:12:in expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding ~’ (ArgumentError)
from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-rails:12
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19:in `load’
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19

Any ideas?

There doesn’t seem to be much information about the git-rails gem on
google. That fact alone would have persuaded me to go a different
route.

Why not actually download and install git? I am in the same position as
you: I am learing git(as of 3 days ago) but on a mac. But you installed
cygwin, so that means you should have a unix like environment to work
with, and we should be in the same boat.

I downloaded git itself and installed it. I used this tutorial to
start:

Starting with git using just 10 commands (I’m only using 5 so far)
http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/08/13/git-tutorial-starting-with-git-using-just-10-commands/

But it was hard to find a tutorial that actually tells you how to
rollback to a previous version of your code. This one does:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch02.html#_saving_state

(see section Advanced Undo/Redo–I’m not sure why it’s titled “Advanced”
since it’s so basic.)

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[email protected] wrote:

Now when I run get-rails init I receive what looks like an error
finding my HOME path as follows:

            C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-

rails:12:in expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding~’ (ArgumentError)
from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-rails:12
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19:in `load’
from C:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19

Any ideas?

Oh, yeah. In unix, the ‘~’ is shorthand for your the directory your
account has been assigned to, e.g.

/Users/joe blow

So whenever you want to use that path, you can use ‘~’ instead of typing
that out by hand. That path is also the value of the $HOME environment
variable on my computer. Maybe when you write “~”, unix substitutes in
the value of $HOME. The error message indicates that the gem is using
“~” in its code somewhere, and that it couldn’t find $HOME to substitute
in a path for ‘~’. To check if an environment variable is set in
cygwin, do this:

$HOME

…that is type $HOME after your prompt in cygwin. I get this result:

~/2testing/dir1$ $HOME
-bash: /Users/myname: is a directory

To see all the environment variables that are set, do this:

set

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And another thing…

To permanently set an environment variable for bash, set the environment
variable in the .bash_profile file:

HOME="/home/Wayne"

You might also want to add a comment to any change you make to
.bash_profile, so that in the future you will know why you made the
change that you did. Comments are preceded by: #

Spaces are not superfluous, so write the assignment exactly as written
above.

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7stud – wrote:

To check if an environment variable is set in
cygwin, do this:

$HOME

That should read:

To check if the $HOME environment variable is set, do this:

$HOME