rspec users - May 2010 - should RSpec add '.' to $LOAD_PATH for ruby-1.9.2?

Ruby-1.9.2 removes ''.'' from the $LOAD_PATH. There have been a
couple of issues reported against rspec-core-2 asking RSpec to add
''.'' to $LOAD_PATH for 1.9.2. My instinct is that this is the
wrong way to go; that Ruby is telling us to get used to typing "./"
when we run command line tools. What do _you_ think?

================http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/28
http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/29

I''ve updated my tests for 1.9.2, and although initially I thought it
was obnoxious, it''s a very sensible change. If `.` is in `$:`, then
your `require` line needs to change depending on where you run rspec
(or any other command invoking your Ruby scripts) from.

What''s much more sensible is to replace all usages of `require
''...''`
that depend on `.` with a `require_relative` directive instead.

~ jf
--
John Feminella
Principal Consultant, Distilled Brilliance


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:23, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ruby-1.9.2 removes ''.'' from the $LOAD_PATH. There have
been a couple of issues reported against rspec-core-2 asking RSpec to add
''.'' to $LOAD_PATH for 1.9.2. My instinct is that this is the
wrong way to go; that Ruby is telling us to get used to typing "./"
when we run command line tools. What do _you_ think?
>
> ================> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/28
> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/29
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On May 26, 2010, at 8:23 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> Ruby-1.9.2 removes ''.'' from the $LOAD_PATH. There have
been a couple of issues reported against rspec-core-2 asking RSpec to add
''.'' to $LOAD_PATH for 1.9.2. My instinct is that this is the
wrong way to go; that Ruby is telling us to get used to typing "./"
when we run command line tools. What do _you_ think?
> 
> ================> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/28
> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/29
Upon further review (d''oh), it turns out there is a solution for this
already built into rspec-2.

Just add a .rspec file in the project root (or home directory for global
settings) and add a line that reads "-I.". I''ll make sure
this is documented in the README.

Cheers,
David