links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread John Almberg
I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... I have a Ruby on Rails application running on a FreeBSD server. All Rails apps use the

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... A *soft* link to a

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:22 AM, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong... I have a Ruby on Rails application

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where they are not and I'm wondering if I'm

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, John Almberg wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:47:23AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/16 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com: On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Almberg jalmb...@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:

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db etc... So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least not the way I am doing it. I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set me straight, I'd appreciate it. IMHO you did everything properly,