beta can't find a "required" file

[amiracam]

I'm back playing with RIS , checking out the file i/o and in particular from the RubyBook project copy_files.rb where a "require" statement specifies a particular core Ruby file i.e.

require( "fileutils" )

RIS can't find it.

I have setup the Ruby path to the Ruby 1.9.2 vm, apparently the tool does not know how to figure the relative path to the core libs from there.

What do I have to do? Are there any docs that cover the VS aspects of RIS ?

thanks in advance,

-Charles

[Huw Collingbourne]

With Ruby 1.9 you need to add the directory specification (e.g. current dir is ".") so try:

require( "./fileutils" )

[amiracam]

doesn't the vm or tool have the sense of the location(s) for the core libs? anyhow, that did not work, I imported the project into Ris 2.0 beta i.e. the entire RubyBook project so it would seem then that none of the examples rb files that use "require" will work.

[Huw Collingbourne]

Sorry, I thought you were referring to a file in the current directory. All The Book Of Ruby programs have been tested with Ruby 1.9 by myself and a batch of editors and reviewers over the last 6 months in preparation for the 2nd edition of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press http://www.nostarch.com/boruby.htm and they all work with very few changes (mainly to do with blocks and symbols); there is no fundamental incompatibility re. 'require'. You may want to verify that your system path is set up to the Ruby 1.9 directory. Otherwise, the only important difference with Ruby 1.9 require is the one I mentioned before to reference files in the current directory.

[amiracam]

ok, well, with RIS 1.0 I did not have to do a thing and it works fine. What do I have to do to actually setup the system path to point to 1.9 ? I did tell the project where the 1.9 vm is? so you would think the tool would change the lib paths accordingly. But pls do tell me how do I setup the system path I guess this an environ var type of thing then i.e. in Windows ?

thanks

[amiracam]

well, I went ahead and added Ruby 1.92 to the Windows path and it did not work. BTW, Ruby 1.86 was already there.

[Huw Collingbourne]

Can you run this from the command prompt?

[Huw Collingbourne]

We are working towards the next Ruby In Steel beta currently so we'll look at this problem in more detail today and get back shortly.

Huw

[amiracam]

Can you run this from the command prompt?

i.e. try to run the .rb file in question , I have not tried. I'm assuming you mean just trigger it i.e. just call it from a command prompt. If that's the case I can do the experiment.

[Huw Collingbourne]

right click solution explorer, open command prompt in the correct directory run

Code:

ruby <filename>

[amiracam]

I'll have to check this out tomorrow when I'm back at the office since for some reason I can't do a project import into Ris2.0 beta of the RubyBook solution. I was however, able to do so at my other pc , btw, both are Win7 64 , one's a Pro and the other Home Premium