From: Tom Wardrop <tom@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T14:19:53+09:00
Subject: "Load" Works, But "Require" Doesn't?

Can someone please explain what's going on here. No matter what I try,
every time I call require() with a relative path, it comes back with
"LoadError: no such file to load". Yet, at the same time, load() works
perfectly fine with the exact same relative path. Require() doesn't seem
to have a problem with absolute paths, in fact this bit of code works
flawlessly...

require File.expand_path('subfolder/file.rb')

...but the follow code fails with the LoadError mentioned earlier...

require 'subfolder/file.rb'

I've got RubyGem's installed, so I thought maybe it's override of the
require() method was causing havoc, so I tried gem_original_require()
with the exact same result, LoadError.

I'm getting this problem from both the "irb" and the "ruby" executables.
Checking Dir.pwd reveals that indeed, the current directory is as
expected/intended.

Can someone explain to me why require() isn't working with relative
paths? I'm completely baffled and don't know where to go from here.

Cheers
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