On Feb 5, 5:17 pm, “Justin B.” [email protected] wrote:
The tool is available as a gem:
To see the current entries in your path. Options are available to add
Justin
I just installed the patheditor gem and gave it a quick test … it
failed!!!
c:\ruby>path_editor
Current path entries:
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
C:\Tcl\bin
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
c:\program files\graphicsmagick-1.1.7-q16
c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16
C:\Perl\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (October
2005)\Utilities\Bin\x86
C:\swig
C:\Perl\bin
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel
C:\p2x
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\win64
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32
Note that there apparently are two C:\Perl\bin … true one there is
with C:\Perl\bin.
and two C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
I invoked the clean command:
c:\ruby>path_editor --clean
Removing C:\swig
NOTICE that it removed C:\swig !!! this only occurred once and
neither duplicate were deleted
c:\ruby>path_editor
Current path entries:
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
C:\Tcl\bin
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
c:\program files\graphicsmagick-1.1.7-q16
c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16
C:\Perl\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (October
2005)\Utilities\Bin\x86
C:\Perl\bin
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel
C:\p2x
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\win64
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32
I was able to add C:\swig back.
c:\ruby>path_editor --remove C:\Perl\bin
Removing path C:\Perl\bin\
NOTE BUENE it removed both C:\Perl\bin\ and C:\Perl\bin
c:\ruby>path_editor
Current path entries:
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
C:\Tcl\bin
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
c:\program files\graphicsmagick-1.1.7-q16
c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (October
2005)\Utilities\Bin\x86
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel
C:\p2x
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\win64
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32
c:\swig
c:\ruby>path_editor --add c:\swig
Added c:\swig to path.
I tried to delete C:\Perl\bin\ — notice the last back slash
c:\ruby>path_editor
Current path entries:
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
C:\Tcl\bin
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline
c:\program files\graphicsmagick-1.1.7-q16
c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16
C:\Perl\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (October
2005)\Utilities\Bin\x86
C:\Perl\bin
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel
C:\p2x
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\win64
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32
c:\swig
c:\ruby>echo %PATH%
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline;
C:\Tcl\bin;
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline;
c:\program files\graphicsmagick-1.1.7-q16;
c:\program files\imagemagick-6.2.8-q16;
C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK
(October2005\Utilities\Bin\x86;
C:\swig;
C:\Perl\bin;
C:\WINDOWS\system32;
C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;
C:\p2x;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\Bin;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\win64;
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32;
C:\Program Files\Arachno Ruby IDE\cmdline;
G:\ruby\bin;
C:\ruby\bin;
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare
NOTE BUENE path_editor failed to pick up the last 3 entries in my
%PATH% variable.
I guess that path_editor is not quite ready for prime time. It does
promise to be a handy tool…so please fix it.