Bug #20920: When loading a file, __FILE__ gets relative paths expanded only when they start with "./"

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.3.6 (2024-11-05 revision 75015d4c1f) [arm64-darwin23]
• Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[deivid (David Rodríguez)]

$ cat foo.rb
puts __FILE__

$ ruby foo.rb              
foo.rb

$ ruby ./foo.rb            
./foo.rb

$ ruby -e 'load "foo.rb"'  
foo.rb

$ ruby -e 'load "./foo.rb"'
/full/path/to/foo.rb

More than an issue, this is mainly a question. In principle, it seems more consistent to me to either expand or not expand, but this is not causing real issues for me. I just want to figure out what to do with one pending spec in Bundler (https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/cd65092deb3168759820c613ecbc54cd9e06d46f/bundler/spec/commands/exec_spec.rb#L1023-L1028).

[deivid (David Rodríguez)]

• Description updated (diff)
• ruby -v set to ruby 3.3.6 (2024-11-05 revision 75015d4c1f) [arm64-darwin23]