OK thanks for explaining it Mark. I'm afraid setting the variable again in Xcode is not an option. I was hoping to pick up $CATALINA_HOME to find out where a user had installed tomcat.
On 17 Oct 2012, at 21:51, Mark Rada <mr...@marketcircle.com> wrote: > Ok, so it looks like you are setting the environment variable from the > Terminal.app, and then running the app from Xcode or launching from Finder. > > If that's the case, then what you export from the Terminal would not be > available to apps. Exported variables will only be available to descendant > processes. The parent process of your app is a launchd process for your user; > and that launchd process has a parent of the root launchd process (and it > doesn't have a parent). You can see the hierarchy when you run Activity > Monitor and use the "All Processes, Hierarchically" filter. > > A shell session in Terminal will be a child of Terminal; and if you run a > program from that shell it will be a child of the shell, which is why you can > see the exported variable from macirb. > > If you are using Xcode, try editing the Scheme for running the app. The "Run" > stage should have a list of environment variables that can be set and you can > add your variables there instead. > > HTH, > Mark > > On 2012-10-17, at 11:39 AM, Erik Lundqvist <willcodejavaforf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Started playing with MacRuby again and I need to access the environment >> variables. >> >> Say I have a export VARIABLE_NAME = Whatever >> >> I have tried both: >> ENV['VARIABLE_NAME'] >> and >> NSProcessInfo.processInfo.environment.objectForKey('VARIABLE_NAME') >> >> Neither of which returns anything >> >> Both works in macirb >> >> Kind Regards, >> Erik >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel
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