possible to indicate absolute path in ruby's require ?

Question

i discovered a problem when cron tries to run a ruby script which uses some library.

require "library"

#do some stuff

it complains about not being able to find library.rb

so i was wondering if i could do something like require "/var/dir/library.rb"

Answer 1

Yes, you can do that. You could also simply add the directory where your files are to the list of paths in $:, either with the -I argument, the RUBYLIB environment variable or just by doing $: << 'some_directory'.

Answer 2

if you're using 1.9 require_relative is your friend