Require files

Rails
1

How to I handle loading files with relative path?

For example:

require ‘…/spec_helper.rb’

require ‘/home/user/myapp/spec/spec_helper.rb’

Thanks!
Alex

2

This is a commonly used convention:

Yes, the double “…/” are needed if requiring “…/spec_helper.rb” this

way

require File.expand_path("…/…/spec_helper.rb", FILE)

If using ruby 1.9, I know there is #require_relative but I’ve never
really
used it yet.

3

On Apr 1, 1:38am, Alex K. [email protected] wrote:

How to I handle loading files with relative path?

For example:

require ‘…/spec_helper.rb’

require ‘/home/user/myapp/spec/spec_helper.rb’

assuming this is in the context of rspec, with the current version
just require ‘spec_helper’ will do (because rspec sticks the spec
folder into the load path)

Fred

4

Thanks so much! The require_relative is much cleaner. 1.9 works for me.

5

This worked too. Even better. Thanks!

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Frederick C.
<[email protected]

6

This worked too. Even better. Thanks!

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Frederick C.
<[email protected]