From: "vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2023-11-04T17:01:51+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:115240] [Ruby master Feature#19985] Support `Pathname` for `require`

Issue #19985 has been updated by vo.x (Vit Ondruch).


martinemde (Martin Emde) wrote in #note-8:
> rubygems has been accepting ducks for years for 99% of Rubyists.

During the years, I had already enough fights where Ruby upstream claimed that RubyGems are integral parts of Ruby and using something like `--disable-gems` is a sin. Looking at the issue from this perspective, the only logical conclusion is that Ruby should accept what RubyGems does (what probably really covers more then 99% of use cases) and let `require` accept `Pathname`.

Nevertheless, I don't really have a preference, I am looking more for consistency. 

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Feature #19985: Support `Pathname` for `require`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19985#change-105156

* Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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It seems that RubyGems / Bundler `require` method overrides of accept `Pathname` as and argument

~~~
$ ruby -rpathname -e '
pa = Pathname.new("test")
require pa
'
<internal:/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require': cannot load such file -- test (LoadError)
	from <internal:/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require'
	from -e:3:in `<main>'
~~~

while plain Ruby require does not:

~~~
$ ruby --disable-gems -rpathname -e '
pa = Pathname.new("test")
require pa
'
-e:3:in `require': no implicit conversion of Pathname into String (TypeError)
	from -e:3:in `<main>'
~~~

This inconsistency is surprising. It seems that RubyGems / Bundler developers think [1] that Ruby `require` should also accept `Pathname`.

~~~
$ ruby -v
ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-linux]
~~~
[1]: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/7128



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