Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Re: installing rubycocoa on tiger

[Anne G <an...@wj...>]

Ahah! wonderful. Thank you so much. I had indeed called the
folder rubyprojects/addon  and I understand now how that is
a problem. I had not debugged the problem all the way. Thank
you so much for finding what the problem was!

thanks you

Anne



On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Jonathan Paisley wrote:

> On 23 Dec 2005, at 13:51, Anne G wrote:
>
> > simpleapp runs fine from the developer/example/rubycocoa
> > folder, but it does not run from the desktop folder.
> >
> > the error message shows up in its own xcode window.
>
> >>> /Users/anne/Desktop/learning ruby/ruby
> >>> projects:addon/Code/build/Development/RubyCocoaTar.app/Contents/
>
> Ahah! The problem is that your directory name contains a ':'
> character (in the Finder it'll show up as a forward slash '/'). The
> path to the Resources directory is added to $LOAD_PATH, which is
> eventually converted to a :-separated string in the ruby core.
> Therefore, the full path to your application is lost.
>
> You could perhaps report this as a bug in ruby.
>
> The temporary fix is to remove that character from the directory name :)
>
>