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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Fri Nov 21 14:49:42 2003 Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net> + + * ruby.1: wrote about ruby related environment variables. + Fri Nov 21 01:40:00 2003 Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> * configure.in: check <pthread.h> @@ -302,6 +302,35 @@ state messages during compiling scripts. You don't have to specify this switch, unless you are going to debug the Ruby interpreter. .El .Pp +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width "12" +.Pp +.It Sy "RUBYLIB" +A colon-separated list of directories +that are appended to ruby's library load path ($:). +e.g. RUBYLIB="$HOME/lib/ruby:$HOME/lib/rubyext" +.Pp +.It Sy "RUBYOPT" +Additional ruby options. +e.g. RUBYOPT="-w -Ke" +.Pp +.It Sy "RUBYPATH" +A colon-separated list of directories +that are used when ruby searches ruby programs for "ruby -S". +This variable precedes PATH environment variable. +.Pp +.It Sy "RUBYSHELL" +The path to the system shell command. +This environment variable is enabled for only mswin32, mingw32, and OS/2 platform. +When this variable is not defined, ruby refers to COMSPEC. +.Pp +.It Sy "PATH" +Ruby refers to PATH environment variable on calling Kernel#system. +.Pp +.It Sy "RUBYLIB_PREFIX" +This variable is obsolete. +.El +.Pp .Sh AUTHORS Ruby is designed and implemented by .An Yukihiro Matsumoto Aq matz@netlab.jp . |