' > > This tutorial I'm watching is about four years old, so he's using an > older version of ruby. I know this is probably the simplest thing, but > as a newbie I have zero decoding skill. Any help would be appreciated. > > Lastly, if you know of a better way to start learning ruby than the > lynda tutorail series, I'm very open to input of any kind. > > Thanks in advance, > -S. > > Attachments: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8351/methods.rb > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > --089e0158c7ce77fbb204dad55ce5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When you require a file, it looks through an array of dire= ctories (called the $LOAD_PATH) until it finds that file. In older rubies, = the current directory (represented with a period) was in the load path, in = newer rubies, it was removed.

The simple solution to your problem, in IRB, is to run= irb like this `irb -I .` (that's a capitol "i") which will a= dd the current working directory back into the load path, like it is on the= Lynda.com version.

When you get to writing programs that depen= d on this, you can use require_relative instead of require. When you get to= writing real programs, you'll need to learn and understand the load pa= th. When you get that far, read the section about the load path from here <= a href=3D"http://guides.rubygems.org/patterns/">http://guides.rubygems.org/= patterns/

-Josh

On Wed, Apr 17, 20= 13 at 8:46 PM, Gouverneur Cadwalader <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

Hello. This is my first post and I'm new= to coding and ruby. I'm
trying to learn the basics right now from Lynda.com. I'm trying to run<= br> the above file "methods.rb" from the command line. In the command= prompt
I navigate to the correct folder, switch to irb, and then I use
>require"methods.rb".

In the lynda tutorial video, this returns >true. It works.

When I do it, I get

LoadError: cannot load such file -- methods.rb
=A0 =A0from
C:/Ruby200/lob/ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in
'require'
=A0 =A0from
C:/Ruby200/lob/ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in
'require'
=A0 =A0from (irb):2
=A0 =A0from C:/Ruby200/bin/irb:12:in '<main>'

This tutorial I'm watching is about four years old, so he's using a= n
older version of ruby. I know this is probably the simplest thing, but
as a newbie I have zero decoding skill. Any help would be appreciated.

Lastly, if you know of a better way to start learning ruby than the
lynda tutorail series, I'm very open to input of any kind.

Thanks in advance,
-S.

Attachments:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8351/methods.rb

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