Neither ruby and nor irb can load .rb file in current directory

Question

I\'m having a really noob problem with importing files in Ruby. I\'m making a Ruby app in Windows XP. All the class files for the app are in \"C:/Documents/Prgm/Surveyor_R

Answer 1

I believe both of the previous posts are correct, just for different uses. In IRB use an absolute path with require, with a file you can also use require with an absolute path, or use require_relative.

Answer 2

If you're trying to do this with rvmsudo, I found this worked for me:

rvmsudo irb -I '/Absolute/path/to/your/project'

Answer 3

it's damn dirty, but you can always do at the very first line:

$: << '.'

and off you go with pwd'ed require. It's quite useful for interactive/creative testing with IRB

Answer 4

None of these worked for me, but this did:

irb -I .
>require 'file'
 => true

Answer 5

Noticed the same behavior but my linux roots had me try:.\file.rb and it loaded into the irb. Try explicitly declaring the current directory.

Answer 6

require './hede'

or

require_relative 'hede'

This works for me in both Ruby (1.9.3) and JRuby (1.7.x) on linux. I haven't tested it on windows.