[TxMt] Re: Pointing TM's ri / rdoc lookup at a non-standard directory

[Robert Poor]

Hi Christopher:

On 2010Jun05, at 06:10, Christopher Creutzig wrote:

> On 6/5/10 3:55 AM, Robert Poor wrote:
>
>> In my development machine I have carefully built versions of ruby
>> 1.9.1, rails, ri, rdoc, all of my gems, etc in a sandboxed directory
>> (~/Development/Ruby/bin/*), and I've left the Mac OS X standard
>> distributions alone.
>
> Try adding that directory (probably better with its real name, i.e.,
> not using the tilde, but /Users/whatever/Development/Ruby/bin/) to  
> your
> PATH variable inside TextMate's Preferences/Advanced/Shell Variables
> tab, in front of whatever you already have. If there is no entry yet,
> use whatever “echo $PATH” says inside a terminal session where your  
> ri command works.

I had already tried setting PATH, but it doesn't work either -- I  
think I see why.  The known "good" $PATH is:

Users/r/Development/Ruby/bin:/Users/r/Development/Rails/bin:/usr/local/ 
mysql/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/ 
sbin:~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

After I set PATH in the preferences/advanced/shell variables to the  
above string, TM shows that it has prepended some of its own  
directories to the PATH variable:

echo $PATH^r
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/ 
CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS:/usr/local/git/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/ 
local/sbin:/Users/r/Development/Ruby/bin:/Users/r/Development/Rails/ 
bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/ 
usr/sbin:/sbin:~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/ 
Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin

I can see why -- TextMate needs to keep some of its special  
directories in the path.  But since /opt/local/sbin now appears  
BEFORE /Users/r/Development/Ruby/bin, it is (I believe) finding the  
wrong ri.  When I try ^h on a function name, I get:

/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ 
web_preview.rb:101: warning: mismatched indentations at 'end' with  
'if' at 98
ri Command Error.

... and I don't see a way to get /Users/r/Development/Ruby/bin  
*before* the TextMate-imposed /usr/local/sbin.  (I suppose I could  
create relevant links /usr/local/sbin, but that would defeat the  
purpose of building the sandbox in the first place -- I want my own  
configuration, and I don't want to mess with the Apple-supplied  
standard version.)

Suggestions?

On 2010Jun05, at 06:10, Christopher Creutzig wrote:

> On 6/5/10 3:55 AM, Robert Poor wrote:
>
>> In my development machine I have carefully built versions of ruby
>> 1.9.1, rails, ri, rdoc, all of my gems, etc in a sandboxed directory
>> (~/Development/Ruby/bin/*), and I've left the Mac OS X standard
>> distributions alone.
>
> Try adding that directory (probably better with its real name, i.e.,
> not using the tilde, but /Users/whatever/Development/Ruby/bin/) to  
> your
> PATH variable inside TextMate's Preferences/Advanced/Shell Variables
> tab, in front of whatever you already have. If there is no entry yet,
> use whatever “echo $PATH” says inside a terminal session where your ri
> command works.
>
>> echo $PATH^r =>
>> /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/
>> CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS:/usr/local/git/bin:/opt/local/bin:/ 
>> opt/
>
> Right. Don't forget to include the directories including
> /Applications/TextMate.app/ into whatever new PATH definition you set.
>
>
>
> HTH,
> 	Christopher
>
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