From: Bob Hutchison <hutch-lists@...>
Date: 2010-11-29T23:12:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] relative-require v1.0


On 2010-11-27, at 1:02 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Nov 27, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Bob Hutchison wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-11-27, at 7:48 AM, Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
>> 
>>> Why don't you use require_relative which is a standard ruby feature?
>> 
>> Is it?
> 
> Yes.  It was added in Ruby 1.9.
> 
>> And it isn't documented on ruby-doc.org, so...
> 
> Here's the documentation from the Pickaxe:

Thanks James. Is there online documentation for Ruby that's complete? I know, for a fact, that there's a bunch of experienced Ruby developers who've never heard of this particular method. And of course, I'm curious what else is in those extensions.

Cheers,
Bob

> 
> Requires a library whose path is relative to the file containing the call. Thus, if the directory	1.9 /usr/local/mylib/bin contains the file myprog.rb and that program contains the following line:
> 
> require_relative "../lib/mylib"
> 
> then Ruby will look for mylib in /usr/local/mylib/lib. require_relative cannot be called interactively in irb.
> 
> James Edward Gray II

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