load works on local path, require doesn't
If you provide just a filename to require, it will only look in the predefined $LOAD_PATH directories. However, if you provide a path with your filename, it should work:
puts 'This is the first (master) program file.'require './loadee.rb'puts 'And back again to the first file.'You could also add your project's folder to the load path instead:
$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)puts 'This is the first (master) program file.'require 'loadee.rb'puts 'And back again to the first file.'And last, you could just use require_relative instead:
puts 'This is the first (master) program file.'require_relative 'loadee.rb'puts 'And back again to the first file.'
Providing a path with the filename seemed not to work for me, and I didn't want to cram a bunch of paths into my $LOAD_PATH.
Checking out the documentation, I found require_relative.
require_relative 'loadee'Works in both 1.9.2 and 2.1.2.
The documentation indicates that require is not intended to search relative paths at all, and neither is load.