How can I load my own files to ruby? (Win XP)

[Stephan.Kassel]

I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

There are no comments on this in the installation instructions and in
the faq(s) afaik.

Any help is appreciated. (No, I don't want to make a lot of other
installations to get it done.)
Stephan.

P.S.: I have installed ruby 1.8.2 with the OneClickInstaller on
RubyForge.

 

[Ross Bamford]

I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

(I don't know about Windows, but I expect it's the same in this regard?).

If you start IRB from that directory, you should be able to require your
file with a simple:

require 'myfile'

assuming your file is named 'myfile.rb'. You can also give full
path/filename to require I think.

Alternatively, a quick and dirty way in IRB is to just do:

$: << 'E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby' # ?slashes?

when you first run IRB. From then, your directory will be in the library
search path.

(Aside: Stick with it - IRB will quickly become one of the most valuable
tools you have when learning Ruby )

 

[Kevin Brown]

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

e:
cd User\stk\Programming\Ruby
irb -r yourfile.rb or irb then requre 'yourfile.rb'

Am I missing something?

 

[Bob Showalter]

I am just trying to get some knowledge in Ruby. For this I am playing
with some tutorials.

In the tutorial I have to save some code to a file and load it
afterwards in the irb (with require).

I don't want to mess up the installation, so I am saving all files
under my own special directory E:/User/stk/Programming/Ruby.

Which enviroment variable do I have to use? What shall I do?

The RUBYLIB environment variable lets you specify additional directories
to be searched by 'require'. irb picks this up. Both ruby and irb (at
least as of 1.8.2) support a -I option too.

 

[Stephan.Kassel]

Thank you.

This was the answer I really needed. Also many thanks to Ross to
provide me with a quick workaround. My problem is solved. (Maybe until
the next time when I need to know something about useful environment
variables for ruby ;-)

Regards,
Stephan.