From: "Haase, Konstantin" <Konstantin.Haase@...>
Date: 2010-08-29T18:37:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31925] Re: Avoiding $LOAD_PATH pollution


On Aug 29, 2010, at 07:01 , Eric Hodel wrote:
> How often do people use $LOAD_PATH besides printing it?

Most autoloading/reloading libraries do (Rack::Reloader, Sinatra::Reloader, ...), Railties' generator.rb does, facets does, some other do so too. Not many do, but some (it's not the flip flop operator):

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=\%24LOAD_PATH\.%28detect|each|map|collect|select%29+lang%3Aruby+-file%3Arubygems&sbtn=Search

Konstantin