From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2003-11-26T08:29:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Library path relative to current .rb file

In article <200311252313.21059.andrew@walrond.org>,
  Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:

> Actually, this appears to be broken when I try to use it. Example:
>
> root@bob root # ls -l /sbin/rubyx
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 24 20:41 /sbin/rubyx -> /pkg/rubyx.1/sbin/rubyx
> root@bob root # irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'pathname'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Pathname.new('/sbin/rubyx')
> => #<Pathname:/sbin/rubyx>
> irb(main):003:0> Pathname.new('/sbin/rubyx').realpath
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /sbin/pkg
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:144:in `lstat'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:144:in `realpath_rec'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:125:in `scan'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:125:in `realpath_rec'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:149:in `realpath_rec'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:125:in `scan'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:125:in `realpath_rec'
>         from /pkg/ruby.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:113:in `realpath'
>         from (irb):3
>         from :0
> irb(main):004:0>

It is already fixed in latest CVS version.
-- 
Tanaka Akira