via Gregory Brown (@seacreature) on Twitter:
Wrong way to deal with the 1.9.2 removal of . from the loadpath:
require "./foo/bar"
forces you to run code from your project root$LOAD_PATH.unshift(".")
recreates security issue, and pollutes
Right way to deal with the 1.9.2 removal of . from the loadpath:
require_relative "foo/bar"
if you don't need Ruby 1.8 compatibility