Re: Rails on a Mac, so strange (to me) behavior

Grant Hollingworth wrote:
You don't need to use ./ when you already have a directory name
('script' in this case) in the command.

'script/server' is the same as './script/server'.

You only need ./ if you are already in the same directory as a command.

cd script
./server

Also, adding '.' to your PATH is generally a bad idea. You might end up
running a command you didn't expect.

Yeah...I'm not really sure what I was thinking (probably shouldn't post
before morning coffee...). As for the wisdom in adding '.' to PATH, my
rule of thumb has always been NEVER for root/superuser accounts,
normally no for user accounts, but for dev accounts (where I'll be
compiling a lot of test code into directories not in PATH) it can be a
bit of a time-saver. Oddly, though, I still end up typing
'./my_ruby_prog.rb' half the time...

Cheers (and hope everything for the OP is working now!),

Josh

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