Geektool Ruby script fails to load gems

Asked Jul 22 '14 at 22:59

Active Jul 22 '14 at 23:08

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I'm trying to use Ruby to write a couple scripts for geektool. However, I've found that geektool can't process

require "some_gem"

Where does geektool execute shell commands? Is it possible to make gems available to to it there, or force the scripts to run in the normal shell environment? Someone attempted to answer this question [here][1].

    /Users/Dave/.rvm/bin/rvm use 1.9.3-p0 > /dev/null
    /Users/Dave/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby ~/foo.rb

However, this fails with RVM throwing an error, that it is not an application, and that I must enable login.

I'd really appreciate some help on getting Ruby gems to work in geektool

edited Jul 22 '14 at 23:08

the Tin Man

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asked Jul 22 '14 at 22:59

jackmac92

Where did they try to answer it? – the Tin Man Jul 22 '14 at 23:09
My bad, here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8528536/how-to-run-ruby-scripts-in-geektool – jackmac92 Jul 23 '14 at 00:39
you could try a `require "rubygems"` before it? – Taryn East Jul 23 '14 at 01:39
`require 'rubygems'` isn't needed with Ruby versions > 1.9. It's automatically done. – the Tin Man Jul 23 '14 at 19:10
yea it didn't help me, interestingly the geektool passed `require "rubygems"` but froze at `require "stock_quote"`. Not sure if that helps at all. Also, I've seen something like `#!/usr/bin/env ruby` posted at the top of some scripts, how does this affect the behavior of the script? – jackmac92 Jul 23 '14 at 22:44

Geektool Ruby script fails to load gems

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