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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