# RUBYLIB on windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897 "2009-02-20T19:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897/1 "2009-02-20T19:07:41Z")

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How do i set rubylib on windows?

Specifically I would like to ask a directory like

/Depot/Ruby/Source/

which contains my ruby scripts.

(PS: Windows drives me crazy… things which are easy on Linux seem to  
be quite hard on Windows)

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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897/2 "2009-02-20T20:41:22Z")

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Marc H. wrote:

> How do i set rubylib on windows?
> 
> Specifically I would like to ask a directory like
> 
> /Depot/Ruby/Source/
> 
> which contains my ruby scripts.
> 
> (PS: Windows drives me crazy… things which are easy on Linux seem to  
> be quite hard on Windows)

It’s not so bad. On windows I have a file /local.rb like this:

# This is intended to be used with the env var

# RUBYOPT=-r/path/to/this/file

# For example,

# RUBYOPT=-r/local

# or

# RUBYOPT=-rubygems -r/local

require ‘rubygems’

$LOAD\_PATH.concat %w{  
C:/prj/something/lib  
C:/prj/something-else/lib  
}

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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897/3 "2009-02-21T17:51:34Z")

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Marc H. wrote:

> How do i set rubylib on windows?
> 
> Specifically I would like to ask a directory like
> 
> /Depot/Ruby/Source/
> 
> which contains my ruby scripts.
> 
> (PS: Windows drives me crazy… things which are easy on Linux seem to  
> be quite hard on Windows)

Assuming XP here:

My Computer [Desktop Icon(usually)] =\> Properties [Menu  
Selection]

System Properties [Window] =\> Advanced [Tab] =\> Environment Variables  
[Button]

Environment Variables [Window] =\> System Variables [Panel] =\> New  
[Button]

NT has some similar chain, don’t know about Vista, sorry

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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubylib-on-windows/160897/4 "2009-02-21T18:30:30Z")

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> (PS: Windows drives me crazy… things which are easy on Linux seem to  
> be quite hard on Windows)

Or install CygWin. There are still issues, but in general it will  
simulate a  
GNU/POSIX environment, all the way down to a mutilatable /etc folder!