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In Rails programming you might seldom come across the below statement

$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)

$: represents load path in Ruby. Its a pre-defined variable and short hand for $LOAD_PATH which ruby uses to look for files.

unshift prepends the given path to the beginning of the array (load path).

__FILE__ gives the relative path of the file from the current execution directory. Incase, you need absolute path, use

File.expand_path(__FILE__)

NOTE : This explanation is as of Ruby 1.8.6. Latest versions of Ruby behave differently.

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