From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-03-16T14:43:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22907] Re: Relegate 1.8.6 to Engine Yard, part II

Hi,

At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:41 +0900,
Urabe Shyouhei wrote in [ruby-core:22845]:
> Ryan, I hav'nt been able to reproduce this bug on 1.8.6.  I suspect it doesn't
> hurt 1.8.7 and earlier.  Can you check?
> 
> zsh % mkdir -p a/foo b
> 
> zsh % touch b/foo
> zsh % ls -ld a/* b/*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 shyouhei shyouhei 40 2009-03-11 21:13 a/foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 shyouhei shyouhei  0 2009-03-11 21:13 b/foo
> zsh % ruby -v -Ia -Ib -e 'load "foo"'
> ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-10 patchlevel 362) [x86_64-linux]
> a/foo: Is a directory - a/foo (Errno::EISDIR)
>         from -e:1:in `load'
>         from -e:1

It is exactly the reported behavior.  Now 1.8.8dev ignores
a/foo because it is a directory, but loads b/foo instead.

To be backported or not is another story.  Honestly, I can't
imagine why merb has to create such directory structure.

-- 
Nobu Nakada