I have this small project I've been working on. In this project, I've been using the rspec to test the classes, so my project folder is structured like this:
.
+--lib
| +-- # bunch of classes
|
+--spec
| +-- # bunch of tests
Being in the project root, if I run rspec all the tests are ran correctly.
However, if I run the main script through the command line, like this: ruby lib/main.rb, then I get this error:
`require': cannot load such file
If I change all the requires to ./lib/class_name it works, but the rspec stops working.
What is the right way to do this?
So, I took Sergio Tulentsev advise and setted up the $LOAD_PATH and that solved my problem!
To do that I added the following code in the beginning of my main script:
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
This code adds the current file directory to the beginning of the $LOAD_PATH(which is an array used by the require to mount the required files paths and load them).
In other words, this abled my main script to add lib to the $LOAD_PATH and fix the requires.