From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T21:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Using 'require' with modules in the same folder

Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I've modularized my very first ruby program (a port of a bash script).
> 
> However, if I use 'load' and the target program is loaded multiple times
> (indirectly), I get warnings about redefinition of constants, etc
> (understandably)
> 
> But if I try to use 'require', it searches for the program in the ruby
> distribution. Is there a way to specify within the top level script
> itself where to search?

You can use relative/absolute paths with require. Combined with
__FILE__, more precisely File.dirname(__FILE__), you can require other
files relative to your current one.

mortee