HOME env variable required

Ruby IronRuby
1

I checked out r116 from SVN into a new clean folder. This is what I
got:

D:\dev\ruby\ironruby\head>rake compile

(in D:/dev/ruby/ironruby/head)

rake aborted!

private method `gsub’ called for nil:NilClass

D:/dev/ruby/ironruby/head/rakefile:15

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Taking a look at the rakefile,

SPEC_HOME = ENV[‘HOME’].gsub(’\’, ‘/’) + ‘/dev’

So the problem is that I don’t have a HOME variable set. Am I unusual
in
this respect? Do most people have this set on their Windows machines by
default?

Cheers,

Pete

2

%HOME% is not reliably set. Some OSes will make it a combination of
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, but many don’t (it’s not set on my Vista x64 box,
for
example).

A much more reliable environment variable seems to be %USERPROFILE%.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Peter Bacon D. <