Require with absolute path

Ruby
1

Hi,
I am trying to require the xml builder library using the require
statement as follows:

require ‘C:/builder-2.1.2/lib/builder.rb’

builder.rb in turn has two requires inside using relative paths:

require ‘builder/xmlmarkup’
require ‘builder/xmlevents’

Althougn those files exists in the builder directory, ruby complains and
give this error:
require’: no such file to load – builder/xmlmarkup (LoadError)

This is strange since $: variable has “.” evertime it loads a file, so
it should find the files in “builder” folder. What is the correct way to
load the files in that case? put everything under ruby lib folder so
that they are in $: ?

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2

Ayhan Molla wrote:

Althougn those files exists in the builder directory, ruby complains and give this error:
require’: no such file to load – builder/xmlmarkup (LoadError)

This is strange since $: variable has “.” evertime it loads a file, so it should find the files in “builder” folder. What is the correct way to load the files in that case? put everything under ruby lib folder so that they are in $: ?
Doesn’t the “.” refer to the cwd of the ruby process, rather than the
directory of the file that contains it?