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JRuby will try to load scripts from directories on the classpath. You can see what these are by running:

jruby -e "puts $:"

On the command line you can modify the $LOAD_PATH with the -I option. Or add a library with the -r option. For example:

jruby -I/usr/bin spec

Here is some more info on loadpath and classpath:

http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/ClasspathAndLoadPath

Hope that helps

joekutner 2010-02-11 17:03:48

That doesn't work, /usr/bin is not in the load path, nor should it be. - I'm using the -S option which is supposed to look at the PATH environment variable - but it doesn't.

Michiel de Mare 2010-02-11 17:40:10

Apparently, `jruby -S` only looks in `$JRUBY_HOME/bin`, not in the PATH, although the docs say it does look in PATH.

Michiel de Mare 2010-02-11 17:57:16

`cp /usr/bin/spec ~/git/jruby/bin` and it works, but this is really a band-aid solution.

Michiel de Mare 2010-02-11 18:07:06

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