I see this a lot in many ruby scripts but not sure what it means:
$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)
I see this a lot in many ruby scripts but not sure what it
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I see this a lot in many ruby scripts but not sure what it means:
$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)
$:is just a shortcut for$LOAD_PATH.__FILE__is the relative path to the script. This adds the current script directory to the load path.