MyProgram

MyProgramsrcmyclass.rb

MyProgramtestmytest.rb

require_relative '../src/myclass'

$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "src"))

$:.unshift File.expand_path("../../src", __FILE__)
require 'myclass'

require File.expand_path "../../src/myclass", __FILE__

Pathname(__FILE__).dirname.realpath

# Read application config
$hConf, $fConf = {}, File.expand_path("../config.rb", __FILE__)
$hConf = File.open($fConf) {|f| eval(f.read)} if File.exist? $fConf

  # Application classpath
$: << ($hConf[:appRoot] || File.expand_path("../bin/app", __FILE__))

  # Ruby libs
$lib = ($hConf[:rubyLib] || File.expand_path("../bin/lib", __FILE__))
($: << [$lib]).flatten! # lib is string or array, standardize

# Site- and server specific config - location of DB, tmp files etc.
{
  :webRoot => "/srv/www/myapp/data",
  :rubyLib => "/somewhere/lib",
  :tmpDir => "/tmp/myapp"
}

path='../specific_folder/' # relative path from current file to required folder

Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/'+path+'*.rb'].each do |file|
  require_relative path+File.basename(file) # require all files with .rb extension in this folder
end