Requiring Files while working Remotely

Ruby
1

Hello,

I’m trying to execute a script on my local machine which requires a file
on a remote machine. When i run the program on my local machine i get
an error saying that ruby couldn’t load a file that is being required by
file on remote machine; both of these files are in the same directory
(on the remote machine).
Here’s the error:
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require': no such file to load -- ExcelModule.rb (LoadError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire’
from \3833-9-CCC-w520\AutoLib\TestBed.rb:49
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire’
from Registration.rb:7

Everything works fine when i work directly on the remote machine.

Both of the machines have same version of ruby. Both are windows xp
sp2.

Thanks for your help in advance.

2

Anybody?

3

El Jul 18, 2007, a las 4:51 PM, Parv G.
escribió:

(LoadError)

Both of the machines have same version of ruby. Both are windows xp
sp2.

The regular library loading mechanism assumes a local filesystem.
Just copy that missing file locally.

– fxn

PS: Loading a remote library would involve two steps:

  1. downloading the actual file

  2. eval’ing its contents somehow

That’s technically possible, but you’d need to do it by hand. I think
this technique is not what you are looking for nonetheless, copying
the missing file to that second machine is the easiest approach if
that’s valid.

4

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:51:28 +0900, Parv G. wrote:

(LoadError)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
require' from \\3833-9-CCC-w520\AutoLib\TestBed.rb:49 from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:ingem_original_require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require’
from Registration.rb:7

You’re trying to load from “\3833-9-CCC-w520\AutoLib\TestBed.rb”? Try
mapping the remote directory to a drive letter.

–Ken

5

Xavier N. wrote:

The regular library loading mechanism assumes a local filesystem.
Just copy that missing file locally.

And it (ruby library loading mechanism) works as designed. What i did
was change the path to the file being required on remote machine.

So on remote machine i changed the driver script like this:
require “c:/lib/file.rb” changed it to -> require
“\\machine-address\lib\file.rb”

Thanks for your help.

6

If the remote file is requiring other files in the same directory,
you’ll probably need to add the path to your list:
$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(FILE),".")