Ruby 1.9's relative_relative for Rubinus and MRI 1.8 Here we add in Module RequireRelative method: *require_relative*, and *abs_file*. Example: require 'rubygems'; require 'require_relative' require_relative './lib/foo' absolute_path = RequireRelative.abs_file But why *abs_file*? Well, recall that ==__FILE__== does not give an absolute path. So if you have chdir'd before using ==__FILE__==, you might not be able to retrieve the full path.