From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T20:23:51+09:00
Subject: 'require' search path

I wish 'require' would count the current directory as the directory the file 
is in, rather than the directory the script is being run from. My test 
scripts do

require 'test/tc_default'

This works fine if you're running the test script which runs all the tests, as 
it resides in the parent directory. However, if you cd into the test 
directory and run a test case directly, it can't find it, since it's looking 
for 'test/test/tc_default' instead, which of course doesn't exist.

The same goes for my executable file, sitting in the bin directory. I've had 
to add a line

$: << __FILE__.sub(/\w*$/, '') + '../lib'

in order to get it to run out of the tarball (I don't want to have to install 
it while testing...) Then I added a pre-setup.rb (hook for install.rb) which 
removes this line when the file is installed. This works, but it is very 
kludgy to me - surely there's a better way? (Oh, and it means once you run 
install.rb, the file is no longer the same one you downloaded... this in 
itself is bad, I think.)

Tim Bates
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tim@bates.id.au