From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-05T23:51:14+09:00
Subject: Re: require problem

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Roni Kekkonen <roni.kekkonen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. I am working with the book "Everyday scripting with Ruby" (The
> Pragmatic Programmers) and I'm at chapter 7 where I have touse require
> to load up a file I have made myself (churn.rb). But everytime I run my
> program, it complains the following:
>
> (internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require):29:in 'recuire': no such file to
> load -- churn (LoadError)
>      from (internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require):29:in 'require
>      from churntests.rb:2:in '(main)'
>
> now, both files 'churn.rb' and 'churntests.rb' are in the same folder
> (I'm programming under Windows) so churn should work. I even tried to
> see if the textbook's files would work and even with them I got the same
> error message.
>
> I just can't understand it... I mean, I have the following lines at the
> beginning of my churntests.rb:
>
> require 'test/unit'
> require 'churn'

Ruby 1.9 no longer includes the current directory in the load path.
Add a './' before the file name, like so:

require './churn'

There are other options as well, like require_relative, and adding the
current directory to the load path. I leave them up to you to
investigate.

It's remarkable how much confusion this change has caused. Especially
for people with older books who insist that they typed the code
*exactly* as it in the book. It is a change for the better though.

What's up with the 'recuire' (c instead of q) in the error message?
Did you edit it?

Regards,
Ammar