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From

puts $LOAD_PATH

I am able to see my load paths. I do

$LOAD_PATH << 'C:/rubyfiles'

to add ruby files to my search path. I then put some random custom rb file in there and do

require 'ya'

LoadError - No such file to load

What am I doing wrong?

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  • Can you show us the code you're using so far? Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 0:22
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    Why are you putting your own files directly in that directory? That's not the correct practice. Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 0:22
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    Then tell me the correct practice. Simply, where do I put my custom rb file and add to search path to require. Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 0:25
  • For a single one-off script, for a web project (e.g. Rails, Sinatra, or other) or are you creating utility code that you want available for many scripts? Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 1:15
  • Just messing around with the basics in the irb Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 3:09

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Try doing

puts "$LOAD_PATH is #{$LOAD_PATH.inspect}" puts "Files in rubyfiles is #{Dir.entries('C:/rubyfiles').inspect}"

and add the output of that debugging to the question.

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When you want to load the file name with xxx.rb, you have load xxx.rb, not load xxx. This is one difference from require. Are you clear with that?

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A good point, but given the presence of require in the question, this seems unlikely to be the issue.
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Guess I trusted too much in someone elses code which had an error. Still somewhat new with ruby thus I mistook the loaderror for issues with the main file without bothering to look in the code itself. Thanks anyways.

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Don't forget to accept this so that the question's treated as answered.
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You can put your custom .rb files in lib/ folder inside your rails project

p/s: assuming it's a rails project

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Oh my mistake, thought this was tagged under rails too

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