From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2008-04-12T02:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Which way is the best way to require another file in .rb

On Apr 11, 1:32 pm, Eddy Xu <edd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I put all source in to lib/ path, and named a lib/foo path for my foo
> project.  However, is there a better approach to require the ruby
> source which in lib/foo/ from the file in the same path.
>
> For example, lib/foo/db.rb require lib/foo/configure.rb, currently I
> write:
> require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../configure"
>
> But it is a ugly way to require other files. Would anyone explain a
> more "standard" approach to do it?

The default load path includes '.', so if the file is in the same
directory it should be found.
HAve a look at "Where Ruby Finds Its Modules" section of
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/rubyworld.html
Despite its age I don;t think the current version of ruby differes

Cheers