From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T21:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: 'require' search path

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:23, Tim Bates wrote:
> 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

Hi Tim,

Maybe you can add to $: with ruby -I for those situations when you need to go 
into a directory to run a specific test as outlined above.

- -- 
Signed,
Holden Glova
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