From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2009-10-14T22:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Hey you! Stop using relative requires!

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently came across two different programs that had this line in a
> bin/ executable:
>
>  $LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../
> lib"))
>
> This stuff makes me sad. The use of RubyGems is masking some bad
> practices here. The above code would not work with a traditional site
> installation.

Why? require_relative has just been added to Ruby 1.9 and I wish it
had been there from the start. How else can you bundle some
application specific library code with an app?

If I don't require rubygems, none of my programs work.

I don't understand any of your points, so can you give some reasons?