[Locomotive-users] Re: crash on startup

[Nick Ragaz]

Ryan Raaum wrote:
> The environment that you get in your terminal is not the environment that
> Applications get on startup.  So, Locomotive uses some ruby scripts to
> initialize this-and-that in the bundles and there is no longer a ruby in the
> standard Application environment, thus crashing.  (Removing the system ruby
> _will_ cause you more problems than it will solve.  Beyond Locomotive, any
> Apple software updates that affect their ruby will expect it to be there and
> will either crash or replace it...).  In any case, either:
>
> 1. symlink /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/local/bin/ruby
> 2. modify .MacOSX/environment.plist (google it) to add /usr/local/bin to the
> Application environment


Thank you Ryan -- the symlink resolved the problem.
All the best,
Nick