From: Steve Klabnik Date: 2011-06-13T00:35:33+09:00 Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative --001517476200924bbb04a5858d45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Yep, that just re-introduces the security issue that had us remove . from $: in the first place. And I wrote a gem that backports require_relative to 1.8, so you can use it everywhere. ;) http://rubygems.org/gems/require_relative --001517476200924bbb04a5858d45--