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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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In response to John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>:
>
> A little more information on this... from the Rails log, I can see
> that a Ruby script in the config directory cannot load ('require') a
> needed file because it can't find it:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- application
> (MissingSource File)
>
> It looks like this require statement is using a relative path, like
> '../path/to/file'. Does '..' not work properly with a soft link? In
> other words, '..', should mean ~/app, but since the config directory
> is really in '~/shared', perhaps '..' translates to '~/shared'? That
> would cause the problem finding the file.
That's a common problem with soft links and interpreted languages.
> Is there a way around this problem?
Generally, you have to fix this in the application itself. I'm not a
Ruby expert, but I can list some of the methods that solve the problem
in PHP:
1 If Ruby has a config value for including library files (often called a
"search path"), configure it to the correct paths and tell Ruby to
include the file name with the configured path information.
2 Write a wrapper around the requirement function that normalizes the path
so that it works.
3 Ditch the softlink altogether and require files by absolute path.
The first one is probably the most desirable, although I've had good
success using PHP's __autoload() to accomplish #2. Don't know if there's
an equivalent in Ruby.
In any event, if you're explicitly including files by relative path, you'll
have to stop doing that. It's a bad idea in any event.
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Bill Moran
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