Alrighty - thanks Fred Out of curiosity Fred - do you or anyone else reading have much experience with using RMagick on a shared host?
Having a major headache trying to get rails to load the RMagick gem and my host's technical help are not being so helpful Thanks Gavin On Apr 19, 8:45 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 19, 8:29 pm, Gavin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey all! > > > I've got an app on a shared host at the moment. > > > They load ruby gems into a dir onto my space: home/myusername/ruby/ > > gems/gems and recommend that you include this path by adding it to the > > load_path like so: > > > $:.push("home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems") > > > My question is - is this the same as adding > > > config.load_paths += %w(home/myusername/ruby/gems/gems) > > > to the environment.rb file? > > > If so - cool! > > If not, can anyone explain what the difference is? > > No - $: (and the various other names it has) is using by ruby when you > write require 'foo' > > config.load_paths (which eventually gets stored in > ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_paths) is the set of paths that is > searched by rails' magic loading stuff. > > Fred > > > > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
