From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-12-20T04:05:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2 require issue

On Dec 19, 3:17 pm, Justin Whalley <jus...@justinwhalley.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Ruby. I am trying to use require to bring in methods.rb,
> which is located on my hard drive in the Chapter05 folder. Getting the
> following error:
>
> C:\Users\Whalley\Training\Ruby\Practice\Chapter05>ruby methods.rb
>
> C:\Users\Whalley\Training\Ruby\Practice\Chapter05>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require "methods.rb"
> LoadError: no such file to load -- methods.rb
>         from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>         from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
>         from (irb):1
>         from C:/Ruby192/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
> irb(main):002:0>
>
> Anyone know what I can do to resolve this? I am following along with a
> video tutorial that is using 1.8.?, and they are getting it returned as
> "true" without any Load Errors.
>
> Any and all help will be much appreciated.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2010/08/18/ruby-1-9.2-released/

FAQ Section:

"It causes a LoadError
$: doesn't include the current directory. Some script may need
modifications to work properly."

The current directory is no longer included in the $LOAD_PATH ($:)

You need to include it to have the compatibility behavior of 1.8.x

irb -I.

or ruby -I. script.rb

--
Luis Lavena