boots

rather than:

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ‘../spec_helper’)

you can do:

require ‘boots’ boot ‘../spec_helper’

you can also use boots to add expanded relative paths to the beginning of your ruby load_path:

require ‘boots’ load_path ‘../lib’ require ‘init’ require ‘my_app’

NOTE: since boots uses FileUtils.pwd, you probably don’t want to do FileUtils.cd before you use the methods it provides.

A nice alternative which I discovered after writing this little thing is the dirge gem - available on github, gemcutter, et al.

github.com/joshbuddy/dirge

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.

  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.

  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull

  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2009 davidlee. See LICENSE for details.