From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:46:54 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Fixed the relative path require issue. Now we should be able to symlink the main... 
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Fixed the relative path require issue. Now we should be able to symlink the main executable and run it from wherever.
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diff --git a/bin/whatever-dl b/bin/whatever-dl
index a59e61b..79cbbee 100755
--- a/bin/whatever-dl
+++ b/bin/whatever-dl
@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@
 # http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
 #
 
+# We need Pathname to get the real filesystem path
+# of this script (and not, for example, the path of
+# a symlink which points to it.
+require 'pathname'
+
+# This bit of magic adds the parent directory (the
+# project root) to the list of ruby load paths.
+# Thus, our require statements will work regardless of
+# how or from where the script was run.
+executable = Pathname.new(__FILE__).realpath.to_s
+$: << File.dirname(executable) + '/../'
+
 # We require the UriUtilities class to handle
 # the download of the video URL.
 require 'src/uri_utilities'