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
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