environment

= Environment

Environment variables in are not available to scripts running as crons and/or services. This gem allows ruby scripts running as a cron and/or as a service full access to the system environment variables.

== Installation

gem install environment

== Usage

The global constant ENV is left untouched by default. To read an environment variable, use Environment.get or Environment[].

Example usage:

require "rubygems" require "environment"

the following two are the same

path = Environment['PATH'] home = Environment.get('HOME')

If you want to override the default ENV constant, use the override! method

Example usage:

require "rubygems" require "environment"

host = ENV['HOSTNAME'] #nil Environment.override! host = ENV['HOSTNAME'] #yourdomain.com