> > Then I probably am not following what you're doing. You don't show the > shebang lines in this message, but I thought you wanted your application > to use a custom wrapper script, and not run the packaged ruby1.8 directly. > On my system /usr/bin/ruby1.8 is a binary, and not a shell script as I > thought you were showing. >
I replaced the ruby1.8 binary, in /usr/bin, with a wrapper script that sets an environment variable and then invokes the binary, which I moved to /etc/alternatives ( perhaps not exactly the way alternatives is meant to be used, but I'm kind of a noob ) Here's the wrapper script: #!/bin/sh export RUBYOPT=rubygems exec /etc/alternatives/ruby1.8 "$@" This script is at /usr/bin/ruby1.8 Let me know if I'm doing something bizarre. It's actually my effort at doing things the *right* way, so any advice would be accepted and welcomed.
