ruby on rails - How to turn a require __FILE__ + 'file.rb' into require 'file'? -

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i have @ top of file:

parser_spec.rb:

require file.dirname(__file__) + '/parser.rb' 

which has class inside:

parser.rb:

class scraper   def scrape_department(file) 

both files in rails/project folder.

how can include file doing require 'parser'?

file.dirname(__file__) 

just means file in directory of caller.

try using

require_relative 'parser' 

by way, suggest renaming file scraper.rb since name of class inside file.