From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-10-19T06:54:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hey you! Stop using relative requires!

On Oct 18, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Intransition wrote:

> I decided it best if I wrote a blog entry on the matter:
>
>  http://proutils.github.com/2009/10/proper-require.html
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Note the blog itself isn't quite "fully operational" -- no rss feed,
> comments, and so forth yet, sorry. So please comment here.

Quoting from that page:

   • Don't mess with the $LOAD_PATH. PERIOD.

My rule for rules:

   * Don't make rules that can never be broken.  Period.

There are totally viable reasons to use $LOAD_PATH.  For example, a  
Rails project is a self contained chunk of code that works together  
and it makes total sense to add certain portions of that project to  
the $LOAD_PATH, just as Rails does.

James Edward Gray II