[Rails] Re: running .bash_login everytime

[Ray Baxter]

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