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Why does Ruby 1.9.2 remove "." from LOAD_PATH, and what's the alternative?

The latest changesets to Ruby 1.9.2 no longer make the current directory . part of your LOAD_PATH. I have a non-trivial number of Rakefiles that assume that . is part of the LOAD_PATH, so this broke them (they reported "no such file to load" for all…
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Adding a directory to $LOAD_PATH (Ruby)

I have seen two commonly used techniques for adding the directory of the file currently being executed to the $LOAD_PATH (or $:). I see the advantages of doing this in case you're not working with a gem. One seems more verbose than the other,…
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What does the "$" character mean in Ruby?

Been playing with Ruby on Rails for awhile and decided to take a look through the actual source. Grabbed the repo from GitHub and started looking around. Came across some code that I am not sure what it does or what it references. I saw this code…
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what is "$:" in ruby?

Usually be seen in .gemspec file. eg. i18n.gemspec. $: << File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
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Organization of Locale Files in rails app

I currently have the following 4 files in my config/locales of my root application: -en.yml -de.yml -simple_form.en.yml -simple_form.de.yml In my application.rb which resides in a spec/dummy folder for testing the application gem I have the…
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How is the default Ruby LOAD_PATH determined?

Assuming I compile my own fresh Ruby (MRI 1.9.3), what is the default LOAD_PATH, and how is that computed?
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add-to-list 'load-path doesn't seem to work

Whenever I see some installation instruction for an emacs package it always suggests to use add-to-list 'load-path it never works for me. For some reason and I have to use load-file. For example, this will not work: (add-to-list 'load-path…
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Ruby require "no such file to load" error yet clearly in path

I've been trying to get a ruby file to require another ruby file and I feel like I'm going crazy. My setup is as follows Two files in '/raid1/ruby-code/benchmark/' CommandRunner Benchmarker Benchmarker is the main program at this point and wants…
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gulp-sass work around for load_path support?

Problem: I'm using gulp-sass and would like to define a load_path so that I don't have to have really long @import rules voor bower dependencies e.g. @import "normalize" instead of @import…
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Adding to Rails autoload_path from Gem

I want to write a gem that adds a app/services directory to a Rails application. Since I want to add it from within the Gem i came up with this solution: class Railtie < ::Rails::Railtie config.after_initialize do |app| ::Rails.logger.info…
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Why can't I require a file in the parent directory in ruby?

Note that I am not using Rails. I have a directory structure like: foo/ bar/ base_classes/ base_classes.rb base_classes.rb: Dir.glob(File.expand_path(File.join("base_classes/config/constants", "*.rb"))) { |file| require file} …
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RVM - Ruby integration was extracted to a separate gem (`remove $LOAD_PATH.unshift`)

I was upgrading to Rails 3.2.6 (ruby 1.9.3-p194) and installing RVM on Debian and using Apache2 server (2.2.19). I used these very nice instructions: http://dalibornasevic.com/posts/21-rvm-and-passenger-setup-for-rails-2-and-rails-3-apps/ The Apache…
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Add $LOAD_PATH externally

I understand that to add a path to $LOAD_PATH just do $LOAD_PATH.unshift(path) But I have to add this line to every program I wrote. Is there anyway to add it to the system level? I tried to search a bit on the startup script for Ruby, but did not…
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How to refer a local gem in ruby?

I pack some ruby code into a gem. I want to refer the code in the gem in some other code. So in the Gemfile I specify the gem's name, version, and local path. Like: gem 'gemname','0.x', :path => 'RELATIVE_PATH_TO_GEM_FILE' After bundle install, I…
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Fast (Rspec) tests with and without Rails

I have two classes: 1.Sale is a subclass of ActiveRecord; its job is to persist sales data to the database. class Sale < ActiveRecord::Base def self.total_for_duration(start_date, end_date) self.count(conditions: {date: start_date..end_date}) …
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