From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-11T12:35:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5408] Re: Path for requires statements

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5405] Path for requires statements"
    on 00/10/11, "Chris Morris" <chrismo@homemail.com> writes:

|Newbie alert: ruby can't find the file I'm referring to in a require
|statement. The file required is in the same directory as the original source
|file. Obviously, this doesn't work. Where does ruby get its path info?

See the variable $LOAD_PATH.  For my case:

  % ruby -e 'p $LOAD_PATH'
  ["/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6/i586-linux", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-linux", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.6", "."]

If you want to load files from the directory where the original file
is, the following technique may work:

  $LOAD_PATH.unshift File::dirname($0)
  require 'the_file_you_want_to_load'

							matz.