RUBYLIB Environment Path

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Robin picture Robin · May 13, 2011 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

So currently I have included the following in my .bashrc file.

export RUBYLIB=/home/git/project/app/helpers

I am trying to run rspec with a spec that has

require 'output_helper'

This file is in the helpers directory. My question is that when I change the export line to: 

export RUBYLIB=/home/git/project/

It no longer finds the helper file. I thought that ruby should search the entire path I supply, and not just the outermost directory supplied? Is this the correct way to think about it? And if not, how can I make it so RUBY will search through all subdirectories and their subdirectories, etc?

Thanks,

Robin

Answer

buruzaemon picture buruzaemon · May 13, 2011

Similar to PATH, you need to explicitly name the directory under which to look for libraries. However, this will not include any child directories within, so you will need to list any child sub-directories as well, delimiting them with a colon.

For example:

export RUBYLIB=/home/git/project:/home/git/project/app/helpers

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