From: Steve Klabnik Date: 2011-05-27T22:01:33+09:00 Subject: Re: require in 1.9.2 and 1.9.1 --00151747675254d2cd04a4418971 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I wrote a gem that backports require_relative (which is the correct way to do it!) to Ruby 1.8: https://github.com/steveklabnik/require_relative Having "." in the $: is a security concern. And modifying $: is bad practice, in general. That's Rubygems' job. --00151747675254d2cd04a4418971--