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require_relative.rb

This is the source code for require_relative, a Ruby gem that backports that particular feature to Ruby 1.8.

Please check out the README for more information on how to build your own copy of the gem, as well as contribute fixes.

require_relative has no effect on Ruby 1.9 (or other versions that provide Kernel#require_relative out of the box)

unless Object.new.respond_to?(:require_relative, true)

Yep, you’re looking at it! This gem is pretty small, and for good reason. There’s not much to do! We use split to find the filename that we’re looking to require, raise a LoadError if it’s called in a context (like eval) that it shouldn’t be, and then require it via regular old require.

Now, in 1.9, “.” is totally removed from the $LOAD_PATH. We don’t do that here, because that would break a lot of other code! You’re still vulnerable to the security hole that caused this change to happen in the first place. You will be able to use this gem to transition the code you write over to the 1.9 syntax, though.

  def require_relative(relative_feature)

    file = caller.first.split(/:\d/,2).first

    raise LoadError, "require_relative is called in #{$1}" if /\A\((.*)\)/ =~ file

    require File.expand_path(relative_feature, File.dirname(file))
  end
end