Ruby: require vs require_relative – best practice to workaround running in both Ruby =1.9.2

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A workaround for this was just added to the ‘aws’ gem so thought I’d share as it was inspired by this post.

https://github.com/appoxy/aws/blob/master/lib/awsbase/require_relative.rb

unless Kernel.respond_to?(:require_relative)
  module Kernel
    def require_relative(path)
      require File.join(File.dirname(caller[0]), path.to_str)
    end
  end
end

This allows you to use require_relative as you would in ruby 1.9.2 in ruby 1.8 and 1.9.1.

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