[#24105] [Bug #1711] Marshal Failing to Round-Trip Certain Recurisve Data Structures — Run Paint Run Run <redmine@...>

Bug #1711: Marshal Failing to Round-Trip Certain Recurisve Data Structures

9 messages 2009/07/01

[#24116] [Bug #1715] Numeric#arg for NaN is Inconsistent Across Versions — Run Paint Run Run <redmine@...>

Bug #1715: Numeric#arg for NaN is Inconsistent Across Versions

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[#24240] [Bug #1755] IO#reopen Doesn't Fully Associate with Given Stream on 1.9; Ignores pos on 1.8 — Run Paint Run Run <redmine@...>

Bug #1755: IO#reopen Doesn't Fully Associate with Given Stream on 1.9; Ignores pos on 1.8

8 messages 2009/07/09

[#24321] [Bug #1773] Gem path doesn't honor user gem? — Lin Jen-Shin <redmine@...>

Bug #1773: Gem path doesn't honor user gem?

12 messages 2009/07/14

[#24390] [Feature #1784] More encoding (Big5 series) support? — Lin Jen-Shin <redmine@...>

Feature #1784: More encoding (Big5 series) support?

12 messages 2009/07/16

[#24467] Re: [ruby-cvs:31226] Ruby:r24008 (ruby_1_8_6): Removed private on to_date and to_datetime. — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>

Hello.

10 messages 2009/07/21

[#24472] [Feature #1800] rubygems can replace system executable files — Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA <redmine@...>

Feature #1800: rubygems can replace system executable files

13 messages 2009/07/21

[#24530] [Feature #1811] Default BasicSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup to true — Roger Pack <redmine@...>

Feature #1811: Default BasicSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup to true

9 messages 2009/07/23

[#24624] [Bug #1844] Immediates Should Not Respond to :dup — Run Paint Run Run <redmine@...>

Bug #1844: Immediates Should Not Respond to :dup

15 messages 2009/07/30

[ruby-core:24428] Re: __DIR__ follow up [RCR]

From: Yehuda Katz <wycats@...>
Date: 2009-07-18 11:33:22 UTC
List: ruby-core #24428
In practice, File.dirname(__FILE__) is an extremely common idiom. Given
that, it seems reasonably to create a new constant.
Similarly, since require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),
"foo")) is an extremely common idiom, require_relative "foo" seems like a
reasonable addition.

-- Yehuda

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Ryan Davis wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2009, at 06:30 , Roger Pack wrote:
>>
>>  __DIR__ would be a nice constant.
>>>
>>
>> Don't forget __DIR_DIR__ and __DIR_DIR_DIR__!!
>>
>> ...This feels vaguely familiar...
>>
>
> One way to get __DIR__ is:
>
> File.expand_path("..", __FILE__)
>
> and it has the advantage of iterating nicely:
>
> File.expand_path("../../..", __FILE__)
>
> It does have the side-effect of conversion to an absolute path, but that is
> usually (in my experience) part of the process anyway, so __DIR__ doesn't
> save much effort.
>
> --
>      vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
>


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