I can't explain this -- why does globally installed gem with script fail in a directory with a Gemfi

Detlef_R · March 28, 2014, 2:04am

I have a gem installed system-wide called scrapers that has a binary
called rubytapas. It will run nearly everywhere except within a
directory that contains a Gemfile.

It can be a completely empty directory otherwise, and the Gemfile can
be empty. It still fails by getting confused about finding
dependencies.

The gist **SOLVED** Why does globally installed gem/script fail when run in a directory with a Gemfile? · GitHub shows what is
happening, I think.

The gist of the gist is:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/tamouse/9822711#file-gistfile1-txt-L35-L50

gistfile1.txt

tamara@pontiki:~/a/b/c/d/e/f:2014-03-27@07:55:24
$ mkdir test_dir

tamara@pontiki:~/a/b/c/d/e/f:2014-03-27@07:55:31
$ pushd test_dir/
~/a/b/c/d/e/f/test_dir ~/a/b/c/d/e/f ~

tamara@pontiki:~/a/b/c/d/e/f/test_dir:2014-03-27@07:55:43
$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:

This file has been truncated. show original

$ rubytapas
Commands:
rubytapas all # Download all rubytapas episodes
rubytapas download # Downloads the listed episode’s files
into a new directory with the episode tag in the given directory
rubytapas help [COMMAND] # Describe available commands or one
specific command

$ touch Gemfile

$ rubytapas
/opt/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin/rubytapas:4:in require': cannot load such file -- thor (LoadError) from /opt/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin/rubytapas:4:in ’

Gem scrapers: GitHub - tamouse/scrapers: Web site scrapers using Mechanize and other goodies.

tamouse_m · March 28, 2014, 2:29am

And I have the answer, just another stupid mouse trick.

I had:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘bundler/setup’

at the top of the bin file, so it was doing exactly what I told it to,
instead of what I wanted to have it do.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:03 PM, tamouse pontiki

tamouse_m · March 28, 2014, 7:27pm

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:28 PM, tamouse pontiki
[email protected]wrote:

And I have the answer, just another stupid mouse trick.

I had:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘bundler/setup’

at the top of the bin file, so it was doing exactly what I told it to,
instead of what I wanted to have it do.

Looks like a useful gem.

tamouse_m · April 3, 2014, 12:26am

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Eric C.
[email protected] wrote:

at the top of the bin file, so it was doing exactly what I told it to,
instead of what I wanted to have it do.

Looks like a useful gem.

Feel free – fork it, play with it, PRs welcome