From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" Date: 2012-03-25T13:57:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:43597] [ruby-trunk - Feature #3346][Assigned] __DIR__ revisted Issue #3346 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh). Description updated Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) ---------------------------------------- Feature #3346: __DIR__ revisted https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/3346#change-25093 Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: =begin I'd like to know why __DIR__ was rejected? I use File.dirname(__FILE__) all the time, and I frequently see others do so as well. #relative_require is helpful but it covers only one specific use case --and probably not the most common one. I am often using File.dirname(__FILE__) in build scripts, when I am loading examples for tests, and when I load output templates or other pluggable modules that reside relative to my code. For something so common, having to clutter my code with a 22 character sequence, when an perfectly obvious 7 character sequence would do semms very uncharacteristic of Ruby, which is usually quite concise. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see code that defines a constant such as DIR = File.dirname(__FILE__) when it will be used more than once because it quickly becomes an eye-sore. For these reasons I hope you will reconsider the earlier rejection. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/