Finding Ruby Path

Bradleyscott · June 1, 2006, 9:54pm

I am newer to Ruby and learning it more and more each day. One thing I have noticed is, some of the applications, such as Tracks, that use Ruby need to know where the path to Ruby is.

I had this dedicated server setup for me to play around with. I had them install things like ColdFusion and Ruby with the Rails packages.

I know in php you have the phpinfo.php that you can use to find anything about your php install out. Does Ruby have something like that?

Thanks,

Brad

vgarcia · June 1, 2006, 10:58pm

Can you log into your shell? Finding the ruby path is as easy as typing in


whereis ruby

at a terminal window.

xmitchx · June 2, 2006, 1:20am

I’ve never heard of “whereis” so if that does not work try “which” (whereis could very well work, but I just have never heard of it)

vgarcia · June 2, 2006, 1:37am

whereis works on Linux :<

xmitchx · June 2, 2006, 2:53am

Good to know Thanks for the tidbit heh

Bradleyscott · June 2, 2006, 8:22pm

I am not new by any means to using SSH, but I had gotten so used to just knowing where stuff was when I had my old server that I completely forgot about the “which” command… and I never even knew about the whereis command, but lo and behold… it worked like a charm. Thanks for all of your input.

Brad