What are the things you would like improved in the Ruby language?

Question

What are the things you wish Ruby (and more generally the Ruby community) would improve?

I read somewhere that Ruby is the love-child of Smalltalk and LISP, with Miss P

Answer 1

Make require-ing files less painful. Don't ask me how, but maybe have one file dedicated to knowing the paths involved and just get rid of the relative path crud from everything else.