There's a lot of little "oddities" involved in loading files via
load/require, and a bunch more added by JRuby's support for loading from
jar files, URLs, and so on. And the sad situation is that practically
none of these oddities have good tests/specs for them. We need help.
I've started to record as many of these oddities as I can here:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3048
Some of these are already fixed in JRuby, so don't necessarily expect
them to be broken. But in general, you can assume none of them have
tests, since most aren't.
Anyone interested in helping out JRuby, but perhaps not ready to dive
into the JRuby codebase, should consider writing up tests/specs for
these and as many other load-oddity cases as possible. Ideally, these
would take the form of rspec specs contributed to the RubySpec project:
http://rubyspec.org/
Here's hoping some of you can help out :) It would help us resolve load,
__FILE__, trace/backtrace, and other filename/load-related issues once
and for all.
- Charlie
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