From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T13:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: cannot require a file that doesnt have a suffix?


Gerald Murray wrote:
> Trans wrote:
> > Trans wrote:
> > > Huh... why can't I require a file that has no prefix?
> >
> > Er... s/prefix/suffix/
>
> This is defined behavior, covered in the file eval.c around #6912
> For the required file to be used as source, it MUST have a ".rb"
> suffix.   irb also checks for the extention.  If the extention is not
> present, then the extention is ASSUMED,  and the require fails
> when that filename+ext is not present.  Perhaps a paranoia
> about lots of other languages, etc., but it may save problems
> with other types of files.  The extention provides the clues
> necessary to indicate how to handle that file.

Okay. Well, I expected it to try the literal path first, then try .rb,
then try the DLEXT. I'm not sure what problems it saves. I could just
as well name a python file with .rb. Ruby won't know the difference
until it chokes regardless. In my particular usecase I have some
scripts that can be run as stand alone executables or be required and
used by another script. So I don't want them to have the extension. But
as Nabu said I can use #load instead, so at least I have recourse.

Depending on an extension like this just seems so 80's, i.e. out-moded.

T.