From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-06-17T05:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#autoload vs require_relative


On Jun 16, 2011, at 10:07 , Piotr Szotkowski wrote:

> Piotr Szotkowski:
> 
>> Hm, I do prefer using require_relative over require + $LOAD_PATH
>> changes; it looks cleaner to me and doesn’t touch shared
>> globals, but I guess that’s more of a personal preference.
> 
> …and now I recalled my particular use-case:
> 
> require_relative 'set'
> 
> will pull in ‘my’ Set, whereas
> 
> require 'set'
> 
> will pull in either ‘my’ Set or the stdlib’s Set depending on whether
> I prepended or appended the $LOAD_PATH with File.dirname(__FILE__).

I know you know this but it needs to be said for others:

require 'my/set'