On Wednesday, 4 June 2003 at 0:32:52 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote: I thought I would post the results of a study recently done on the order of Ruby's library search path. I believe it to be correct, but if anyone sees a problem, please post a correction. Library Search Path Order PATH (Example) NAME HOW DEFINED ========================================================================= some_path none -r added command line path some_path RUBYLIB RUBYLIB Environment variable some_path RUBY_SEARCH_PATH --with-sitedir PREFIX/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 RUBY_SITE_LIB2 PREFIX/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/arch RUBY_SITE_ARCHLIB PREFIX/lib/ruby/site_ruby RUBY_SITE_LIB PREFIX/lib/ruby/1.8 RUBY_LIB PREFIX/lib/ruby/1.8/arch RUBY_ARCHLIB . none local directory -- Jim Freeze ---------- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis