From: Alexey Verkhovsky Date: 2007-02-19T07:26:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Re : [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.5-23 released Ruby Admirer wrote: >> That is simply because IRB has already required 'readline' while it was >> starting up. >> > That makes sense. > But why within irb, load 'readline' raises a LoadError ? > because load() needs a file path (absolute or relative, with .rb extension included), whereas require() adds .rb extension to the name, and then looks for the file in all paths listed in $: Alex