From: Greg Millam <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T16:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: require of a .file

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
 > I'm attempting to do a user config file as a ruby script to be
 > required- e.g. ~/.myrc
 >
 > load ENV['HOME'] + "/.myrc"
 > works, but "require" fails in its place saying it can't find .myrc. Is
 > this a bug in require?

'require' tacks on ".rb" and ".so" to the filename to find it.

So unless it's named ".myrc.rb," require won't find it.

- Greg