From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-10-20T19:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: require  with absolute path

Ayhan Molla wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to require the xml builder library using the require statement as follows:
> 
> require 'C:/builder-2.1.2/lib/builder.rb'
> 
> builder.rb in turn has two requires inside using relative paths:
> 
> require 'builder/xmlmarkup'
> require 'builder/xmlevents'
> 
> Althougn those files exists in the builder directory, ruby complains and give this error:
> require': no such file to load -- builder/xmlmarkup (LoadError)
> 
> This is strange since $: variable has "."  evertime it loads a file, so it should find the files in "builder" folder. What is the correct way to load the files in that case? put everything under ruby lib folder so that they are in $: ?
Doesn't the "." refer to the cwd of the ruby process, rather than the 
directory of the file that contains it?

-- 
Alex