From: Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-10-20T06:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Hey you! Stop using relative requires!

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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.

Tried to respond a few times, Google Groups is acting up it seems, so if 
I ultimately triple post, my apologies.

To be brief, you are correct in that these rules do not apply to Rails 
apps. I'm talking about Ruby projects. I made a note of it in the post 
to clarify that fact.

Thanks.
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