I’m using Ruby 1.8.4.
This is no problem.
$ ruby ~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibtimes.rb
When I do this, there is a problem.
irb(main):001:0> require “~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibitmes.rb”
LoadError: no such file to load – ~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibtimes.rb
from (irb):1:in `require’
from (irb):1
I get this even when I use the expanded home path instead of ~.
I also get this error using ‘load’ instead of ‘require’.
I this a bug in the irb parser?
Typo correction:
irb(main):001:0> require “~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibtimes.rb”
unknown wrote:
I’m using Ruby 1.8.4.
This is no problem.
$ ruby ~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibtimes.rb
When I do this, there is a problem.
irb(main):001:0> require “~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibitmes.rb”
LoadError: no such file to load – ~/‘Ruby Stuff’/fibtimes.rb
from (irb):1:in `require’
from (irb):1
I get this even when I use the expanded home path instead of ~.
I also get this error using ‘load’ instead of ‘require’.
I this a bug in the irb parser?
The single quotes are necessary to prevent the shell from interpreting
the space in your filename as a break between words. Inside irb however
they’re seen as literal quote characters (i.e. it’s looking for a
directory literally named /home/foo/‘Ruby Stuff’/
What you need to give ruby would be:
“/home/foo/Ruby Stuff/fibtimes.rb”
Perfecto!! That solved it.
Thanks.