From: Intransition Date: 2011-06-13T00:51:13+09:00 Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative On Jun 12, 11:35 am, Steve Klabnik wrote: > 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 Hompage link seems to be broken Is this in backports (https://github.com/marcandre/backports), btw? I'm wondering if I can just start doing 1.9+ only from now on, and if the end user wants to use my stuff with 1.8.x they can add RUBYOPT="- rbackports", or something along those lines. Could something like that do the job?