What are the paths that “require” looks up by defa

问题:

In Ruby, I have been told that when doing

require "some_file"

Ruby will look for the file in certain places.

I know that it looks for some_file.rb, but where does it look for it by default?

回答1:

It depends on your platform, and how Ruby was compiled, so there is no "the" answer to this. You can find out by running:

ruby -e 'puts $:'

Generally, though, you have the standard, site, and vendor Ruby library paths, including an arch, version, and general directory under each.

回答2:

Ruby looks in all the paths specified in the $LOAD_PATH array.

You can also add a directory to search like so:

$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path('../path/from/this/file/to/another/directory', __FILE__)

回答3:

additional paths can be specified by setting RUBYLIB environment variable

回答4:

The $LOAD_PATH global variable (also named $:) contains the list of directories that are searched.

See: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Kernel.html#method-i-require

回答5:

require(string) => true or false

Ruby tries to load the library named string, returning true if successful. If the filename does not resolve to an absolute path, it will be searched for in the directories listed in $:. If the file has the extension ".rb", it is loaded as a source file; if the extension is ".so", ".o", or ".dll", or whatever the default shared library extension is on the current platform, Ruby loads the shared library as a Ruby extension. Otherwise, Ruby tries adding ".rb", ".so", and so on to the name. The name of the loaded feature is added to the array in $:.