Ruby 'require' error: cannot load such file

Question

I\'ve one file, main.rb with the following content:

require \"tokenizer.rb\"

The tokenizer.rb file is in the same directory and it

Answer 1

The problem is that require does not load from the current directory. This is what I thought, too but then I found this thread. For example I tried the following code:

irb> f = File.new('blabla.rb')
=> #
irb> f.read
=> "class Tokenizer\n    def self.tokenize(string)\n        return string.split(
\" \")\n    end\nend\n"
irb> require f
LoadError: cannot load such file -- blabla.rb
        from D:/dev/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `req
uire'
        from D:/dev/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `req
uire'
        from (irb):24
        from D:/dev/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `
'

As it can be seen it read the file ok, but I could not require it (the path was not recognized). and here goes code that works:

irb f = File.new('D://blabla.rb')
=> #
irb f.read
=> "class Tokenizer\n    def self.tokenize(string)\n        return string.split(
\" \")\n    end\nend\n"
irb> require f
=> true

As you can see if you specify the full path the file loads correctly.