How to run a program without specifying the full path?

Question

How come when I type \"rails\", it won\'t work... but when I type \"/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails\" it will work? How do I bind it so that I don\'t have to type the full path ever

Answer 1

You can create a soft link:

ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails /usr/local/bin

Then you can run rails directly.