From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T03:10:22+09:00
Subject: Ruby require path issues


How does one get $: to seamlessly include the directory of the parent 
script?

I've written a library:

foo.rb

And a script,

dofoo.rb which does 'require "foo"'.

If I run dofoo.rb in it's own directory, require works. If I include 
it's directory in my path, and run it from another directory, it can't 
find the foo.rb library.

I've used $:.push("the path to my library")   ( e.g. 
$:.push(File.dirname($0)) )  before the require, which works but seems 
inelegant.

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to distribute a set of scripts that any 
user could drop into a path location.

Are there any other ways to do this (assuming no knowledge of the target 
system)?

Thanks,
Nick