# RadRails and path issues

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 4, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626 "2006-05-04T20:16:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/1 "2006-05-04T20:16:52Z")

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I have been using RadRails as my editor for Ruby development. Overall  
I’m pretty happy with it. I’m experiencing a couple of path problems  
though when using it.

Inside of my project within RadRails I will have a directory structure  
that looks similar to this.

+MyProject  
++src  
+++src\_sub\_directories  
++props  
++output  
…misc files

RadRails then treats all files within the src directory as if those  
files exist directly within the MyProject path. Instead of being treated  
as ./MyProject/src/foo.rb it is treated as ./MyProject/foo.rb. This  
affects all relative paths. Then we I “release” my application all of  
the paths are broken because the actual Ruby interpreter treats the  
paths correctly where ./MyProject/src/foo.rb is treated as such.

I’m not sure why RadRails treats the files like this and I’m not sure  
why it does this, but I’m wondering how others have gotten around this  
problem. I can’t be the only one who has encountered this, but my  
searches on google and on ruby lists has turned up nothing.

Thanks,  
Joe

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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/2 "2006-05-05T01:28:52Z")

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Joe S. wrote:

> Can anyone help me here please?

I think you’ll have better luck asking on the Rails mailing list, or by  
submitting a ticket on the radrails site.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/3 "2006-05-04T23:57:03Z")

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Can anyone help me here please?

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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/4 "2006-05-05T04:09:47Z")

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James B. wrote:

> Joe S. wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone help me here please?
> 
> Try the Rails mailing list:
> 
> [http://www.rubyonrails.org](http://www.rubyonrails.org)
> 
> And consider describing the problem you’re having. It makes it easier  
> for people who can’t read minds.

In my original post I was VERY descriptive. My last post was a follow  
up since no one responded.

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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/5 "2006-05-05T01:31:53Z")

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Joe S. wrote:

> Can anyone help me here please?

Try the Rails mailing list:

[http://www.rubyonrails.org](http://www.rubyonrails.org)

And consider describing the problem you’re having. It makes it easier  
for people who can’t read minds.

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**Author:** ![jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jsimone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsimone)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-and-path-issues/59626/6 "2006-05-05T04:46:13Z")

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Joe S. wrote:

> > And consider describing the problem you’re having. It makes it easier  
> > for people who can’t read minds.
> 
> In my original post I was VERY descriptive. My last post was a follow  
> up since no one responded.

Ah, well, my apologies then.

I saw a sparse, uninformative message, and the  
“Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/)” tag, and had a conditioned  
reaction.

James