Question
What is the difference between require_relative
and require
in Ruby?
Answer
Just look at the docs:
require_relative
complements the builtin methodrequire
by allowing you to load a file that is relative to the file containing therequire_relative
statement.For example, if you have unit test classes in the "test" directory, and data for them under the test "test/data" directory, then you might use a line like this in a test case:
require_relative "data/customer_data_1"