ezFAQ: issue when installing ezfaq git

Hello,

I'm getting an error enumerating an environmental variable called HOME when attempting to install the ezFAQ git.

The error occurs when I run

D:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\git-rails-0.2.1\bin>git-rails install git://githu
b.com/zouchaoqun/ezfaq.git

d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-rails:12:in `expand_path'
: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~' (ArgumentError)
        from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-rails-0.2.1/bin/git-rails:12
        from d:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19:in `load'
        from d:/ruby/bin/git-rails:19

I looked in the git-rails file and found the line:

Home = File.expand_path(ENV['HOME'] || '~')

I'm not familiar with RoR, but figure that this is either a system environmental string (which isn't set), or a string that needs to be set in the ror config.

Can anyone direct me as to what to edit or where to edit?

Thanks very much,

Matt

Replies (2)

RE: ezFAQ: issue when installing ezfaq git - Added by Eric Davis over 16 years ago

Matt Brown wrote:

I'm not familiar with RoR, but figure that this is either a system environmental string (which isn't set), or a string that needs to be set in the ror config.

It looks like a bug in git-rails. HOME is a UNIX environment variable that points to the folder a user stores all their files. ~ is an alias of HOME. This link talks about how you can setup environment variables in Windows. If I were you I'd set HOME to be something like C:\Documents and Settings\Users\my-username

Eric

RE: ezFAQ: issue when installing ezfaq git - Added by Matt Brown over 16 years ago

Interesting... there's a similar env var called userprofile in Windows.

Odd that they would look for it for a gem, no?

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