Comments on: Digging Into A Ruby Installation, Require vs Load And Other Stuff

By: andy

andy — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful. I was stuck until I saw the part about adding “require ‘rubygems’” before requiring any other gems. I’m using Ruby 1.8.7.

By: roger

roger — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:15:51 +0000

I think Config comes from
require ‘rbconfig’
RbConfig
if I’m not mistaken…

@Dylan it’s a new thing in 1.9.2
work around:
$: << '.'

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:04:45 +0000

One thing I’m noticing in ruby 1.9 is that the current working directory is missing from the ruby path (i.e. “.” is not at the end of the $: array). I can’t find anything about this on the interwebs and I’m going nuts trying to figure out the best way to deal with it.

Thanks for a helpful post.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:24:44 +0000

Oh yeah, cheers for reminding me, I’ve been meaning to update but it has slipped my mind

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:17:37 +0000

Congrats on a great article, and thanks for it!

James H is right, though. I went into irb and couldn’t load the Config object, until I required ‘rubygems’. So yeah, it’s a RubyGems thing, you might want to put that in your article so the next people who read it will know.

Cheers!

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Ennuyer.net » Blog Archive » Rails Reading - August 12, 2009 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:25:36 +0000

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By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:02:18 +0000

Thanks for picking that up, much appreciated (and fixed). That’s what the internet is all about – collaboration :).

By: anon

anon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:50:06 +0000

“…how the language does it’s work…”
s/it’s/its
I think you probably need to work a little more on your English language skills, before pontificating about programming languages. ;)

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:04:54 +0000

You’ll have to show me how you do that at some point.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:04:06 +0000

I wasn’t aware of that, might need to look into this further.