Bug #5091: Can't require './.testrb'

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-linux]

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

Just ran across this oddity. I made a local configuration file called .testrb, but I can't require it.

require './.testrb'
LoadError: no such file to load -- ./.testrb

Just to make sure I did not mess up somehow, I renamed it to .rbtest and it worked fine. I change it back and still no go.

I tried it under 1.9.2 and 1.8.7, both failed to require the file.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

For require the filename must end in .rb, .so, .dll, .dylib, etc.

load will work with any file extension.

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

My bad. Apparently I was in a variant quantum universe earlier today.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected