Load path problem

[btedev]

I installed gli to follow along with David Copeland's "Command-Line Apps" book. The example fails with "no such file to load -- todo_version.rb". It works when I change line 4 of bin/todo to...

require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'/../lib/todo_version.rb'))

I verified this behavior on ruby 1.9.2p290 and 1.8.7. I also cloned the repo and did a hard reset to Oct. 5, "updated dep on simplecov", before the load path change and it worked without modification.

Thanks for the great library. I wanted to share in case this is useful.

[shaun-floss]

Yeah, I'm seeing the same issue here with Ruby 1.9.2p290 as well.

[davetron5000]

Is this a problem you noticed with the code that GLI generated, or with code
from the book? I can change both :)

Dave

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Barry Ezell <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

I installed gli to follow along with David Copeland's "Command-Line Apps"
book. The example fails with "no such file to load -- todo_version.rb". It
works when I change line 4 of bin/todo to...

require
File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'/../lib/todo_version.rb'))

I verified this behavior on ruby 1.9.2p290 and 1.8.7. I also cloned the
repo and did a hard reset to Oct. 5, "updated dep on simplecov", before the
load path change and it worked without modification.

Thanks for the great library. I wanted to share in case this is useful.

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[btedev]

Ah, I didn't catch the tronification of your name. :0

It's just GLI. The commit "experimentally removing messing with load path" on 10/05/11 seems to have broken app scaffolding. The commit before that is working without error.

To reproduce just 'gem install gli' > 'gli scaffold todo new list done' > 'bin/todo new' and it will throw an error due to lib/todo_version.rb not being found.

[btedev]

Sorry, accidentally closed the issue.

[davetron5000]

Ah, OK. I think I might know the problem.

I remove the load path stuff, because it's not really needed when you deploy
the app. To run the app locally, you have to tell Ruby about it, however
this tidbit doesn't make an appearance in the book until much later.

I think the right thing to do is fix the book, but it might make the
examples kind of a pain. I'll noodle on it, but if you use the latest GLI
and then do

RUBYLIB=lib bin/todo

I think that will work.

Dave

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Barry Ezell <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Sorry, accidentally closed the issue.

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[davetron5000]

Try 1.3.5, just released. I put back the load-path stuff. I don't know of a clean way to solve it for now, and it's pretty frustrating for development. Re-open if it's still a problem and thanks for pointing it out!

[schneems]

Thanks for being quick on the fix for this one.

[btedev]

Thanks Dave!

[davetron5000]

Can you provide some more details? Are you trying to run the .gem file? I
don't think that works

Dave

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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Sedlacek <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Hey Guys,

I'm having this issue when I package the gem up and run the packaged
executable. Locally is running fine.

Maybe I'm missing something though?

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[matthewblack]

Sorry. Dumb mistake by me. I forgot to add the version file to the s.files in the gem spec. All is well.

Thanks for the fast reply though!