[Rubygems-developers] LoadError in nested require causes silent failure

[Eric Hodel]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:13, Peter Marklund wrote:

> Without RubyGems an exception is thrown on the first invocation of  
> require, but not the second:
>
> require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "test_help")
> LoadError: no such file to load -- b
> 	from ./test_help.rb:1:in `require'
> 	from ./test_help.rb:1
> 	from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),  
> "test_help")
> => false
>
> I hope this illustrates the issue that I am getting at. RubyGems  
> cannot know that the LoadError exception refers to the path of the  
> require, it can refer to a nested require. When the second  
> invocation of __require in RubyGems require method returns false,  
> should RubyGems maybe issue a warning?

If you can reprudce this without Rails, please file a bug.