[Rails] Re: running .bash_login everytime

Ray Baxter
2006-03-21T18:58:55Z

Josh Kieschnick wrote:
> i used
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> to install ruby on rails on my mac. everything works fine unless i close
> the terminal application. after a while of pulling my hair out, i found
> out that everytime i restart terminal, i have to run ".
~/.bash_login"
> to make the paths work right. is that what i''m supposed to do
everytme,
> or did i do something wrong?
>
> i''m new to a lot of this stuff, so any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Two possibilities:

Do you have ~/.bash_profile file? The contents of that file are
preferred over the contents of ~/.bash_login, so you need to combine the
two and get rid of the other.

Move the relevant contents of ~/.bash_login to ~/.bashrc The contents of
.bash_login are only sourced when bash is invoked as a login shell,
although my limited testing on mac os x shows that most normal ways of
opening a new terminal does source my .bash_profile.

Ray