Sorry, that's sf.net/projects/jruby, and I should probably be plugging jruby.sf.net instead, since that's the official home page. Sorry for the mixup! On 3/3/06, Charles O Nutter <headius / headius.com> wrote: > JRuby does not provide its own set of .rb libraries to run off; it > expects that you will have C Ruby available somewhere. Obviously this > allows us to run 90% of Ruby code and libraries exactly as C Ruby > does, since we both use the same .rb files. I believe you have two > options: > > 1. Try setting RUBY_HOME to the base directory of your C Ruby install > (i.e. where you would find bin, lib, and so on). The JRuby startup > script should be able to see that location and use the .rb files > directly. > 2. If that fails to work (let me know!), you can simply copy the C > Ruby .rb files into the JRuby distribution directory: > - copy %RUBY_HOME%\lib\ruby\1.8 directory as a whole into > %JRUBY_HOME%\lib\ruby, so you have %JRUBY_HOME%\lib\ruby\1.8 > containing all the same files. > > The second method is how most of the JRuby dev team runs JRuby, and it > works very well. It also keeps JRuby separate from your Ruby install, > so if you move or rename it JRuby will continue to work. It does, > however, require to you update those libraries if you install a newer > Ruby version. In the future, we hope to work out a way to distribute > JRuby with the standard Ruby .rb files, so it provides a complete, > working Ruby interpreter out-of-the-box...but that's a discussion for > another day. > > JRuby also has a user mailing list on sf.net/jruby, the jruby-user > list. Please join us and let us know if you have any more problems. > Thank you for trying JRuby! > > On 3/3/06, Peter Piper <pp / nosuchemail.com> wrote: > > Im trying to set up java and jruby on Windows, great work with the > > recent developments. > > > > In some of the recent examples of irb running on jruby it is ran like: > > > > C:\rails>jruby C:\ruby\bin\irb > > > > If I run this I get: > > > > c:\ruby\bin\irb:10:in 'require': No such file to load -- irb (LoadError) > > from c:\ruby\bin\irb:10" > > > > I have set both JAVA_HOME and JRUBY_HOME. > > > > Many thanks, Pete. > > > > PS. When setting JRUBY_HOME enviroment var it appears it cant have any > > spaces in the path, this is on Windows. And is most likly something to > > do this 'DOS'. > > > > > > -- > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > > > > -- > Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com > JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net > Application Architect @ www.ventera.com > -- Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net Application Architect @ www.ventera.com