On Apr 19, 8:29 pm, Gavin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I've got an app on a shared host at the moment.
>
> They load ruby gems into a dir onto my space: home/myusername/ruby/
> gems/gems and recommend that you include this path by adding it to the
> load_path like so:
>
> $:.push("home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems")
>
> My question is - is this the same as adding
>
> config.load_paths += %w(home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems)
>
> to the environment.rb file?
>
> If so - cool!
> If not, can anyone explain what the difference is?
>
No - $: (and the various other names it has) is using by ruby when you
write require 'foo'
config.load_paths (which eventually gets stored in
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_paths) is the set of paths that is
searched by rails' magic loading stuff.
Fred
> Thanks
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