Why does Ruby 1.9.2 remove “.” from LOAD_PATH, and what’s the alternative?

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It was deemed a “security” risk.

You can get around it by using absolute paths 

File.expand_path(__FILE__) et al

or doing

require './filename' (ironically).

or by using 

require_relative 'filename'

or adding an “include” directory

ruby -I . ...

or the same, using irb;

$irb -I .

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