From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2013-08-30T13:31:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56874] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8834]	Kernel#load_relative

(13/08/30 12:53), Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> On 08/29/2013 07:27 PM, sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) wrote:
>> It seems to me that people are using `Kernel#require_relative` when
>> they want to use a relative path, even in the context where they are
>> supposed to use `load` because of the lack of `Kernel#load_relative`.
> 
> Kernel#load does try to load relatively first, doesn't it? Quoting ri:
> 
>   If the filename does not resolve to an absolute path, the file is
>   searched for in the library directories listed in $:.
> 
> What would Kernel#load_relative do?

It's relative to the cwd, whereas require_relative does
relatively to the script path calling it.