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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Loading Ruby classes - where does Ruby look?

If you're loading a Ruby class (or other code) from another source file, use the require function, and give the file name without the .rb on the end of it. Ruby will look in each of the directories listed in $: or $LOAD_PATH in turn, and that list usually includes . (the current directory). See that in irb:

  >> puts $:
  /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8
  /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/powerpc-darwin11.0
  /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/universal-darwin11.0
  /Library/Ruby/Site
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/universal-darwin11.0
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr  /lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin11.0
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin11.0
  .
  => nil
>>


But, occasionally, you may find a system where . is not included; there are security concerns relating to injection attacks in unfriendly environments which cause this to be a concern. And the effect is an error like this, even if the porridge.rb file is present in your current directory:

  >> require "porridge"
  LoadError: no such file to load -- porridge


This came up yesterday on a delegate's system, running the Backtrack version of Ubuntu.

Solution? Set the RUBYLIB environment variable, which is an extra colon-separated list of places that require is to look. You should export the variable from your shell, so:
  export RUBYLIB=$RUBYLIB:.
(the echoing back of the old value allowing for other modifications of RUBYLIB which you will not want to overwrite).




(written 2012-02-24)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
R119 - Ruby Miscellany
  [1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables - (2007-05-09)
  [1586] Variable types in Ruby - (2008-03-21)
  [1720] Some Ruby lesser used functions - (2008-07-26)
  [1889] Ruby mixins, modules, require and include - (2008-11-16)
  [1890] MySQL database from Ruby - an example - (2008-11-16)
  [3155] Rake - a build system using code written in Ruby - (2011-02-03)
  [3428] How many days to Christmas? - (2011-09-09)
  [3783] Load path, load and require in Ruby, and a change from 1.8 to 1.9 - (2012-06-24)
  [3799] Ruby Documentation through rdoc - (2012-07-07)

R118 - Ruby Sources and Resources
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [2610] Cheat Sheet - what do you need for Ruby on Rails? - (2010-01-31)
  [2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples - (2010-02-03)
  [2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please! - (2010-08-22)
  [3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver - (2011-09-09)
  [3435] Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby - (2011-09-12)


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