Note To Self: Beware Relative Paths

When loading my own Ruby sources into Rails in environment.rb, don’t do this:

require 'my_library'

Do this:

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../lib/my_library')

Especially when using a cheap host that:

  • starts up Rails in a directory that isn’t the app’s root
  • doesn’t give you access to the error logs
Andy Stewart, 16 August 2007

Posted in Deployment, Notes To Self, Rails

0 Comments

Jump to comment form

Have your say

You can use Markdown in your comments. If you want to post code, do this:

<pre><code class="ruby|javascript|css|html">your code here</code></pre>

Thanks!