Question

I used Bundler to generate a Gem skeleton for me. Within lib/foo.rb, I have the following:

require 'foo/client'
require 'foo/other'

Those two lines are supposed to require lib/foo/client.rb and lib/foo/other.rb, respectively. It builds without a problem, but when I go to test it with irb, I get a file not found error.

ruby-1.9.2-head :003 > require 'foo'
LoadError: no such file to load -- foo/client
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/foo-0.1.0/lib/foo.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from (irb):3
    from /home/ethan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'
ruby-1.9.2-head :004 > 

What is the correct way to require files within the same Gem? There must be something simple that I’m overseeing…

Answer 1

The current directory is not in the load path in Ruby 1.9. Try one of these:

require './client'

or

require_relative 'client'