From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2013-04-06T09:37:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:54045] Re: Question about r39944

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:41:46AM +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote:
> 2013/4/6 Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>:
> > Can you give me a specific example of how you're running the tests?  It
> > seems we should make sure the load path is always correct rather than
> > couple the source file to it's location in the file system.
> 
> In general, require_relative is a good tool to require a utility
> library for a test.
> 
> For example, test/objspace/test_objspace.rb uses test/ruby/envutil.rb.

Ok.  So if you move `test_objspace.rb` to 'test/foo/bar', now you have
to modify the source of `test_objspace.rb`.  Why does the source file
depend on the file system location?

> But I want to invoke the test as follows.
> 
> % ./ruby test/objspace/test_objspace.rb
> 
> Since test/ruby/ is not a standard library location,
> the load path doesn't contain it.
> 
> So, if "require" is used instead of "require_relative",
> I need to invoke ruby with -Itest/ruby or test_objspace.rb needs to
> tweak the load path which is irritative.

export RUBYOPT='-Itest/ruby'

;-)

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Aaron Patterson
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