title: Why does Ruby 1.9.2 remove "." from LOAD_PATH, and what's the alternative?
body: <p>The latest changesets to Ruby 1.9.2 no longer make the current directory <code>.</code> part of your <code>LOAD_PATH</code>. I have a non-trivial number of Rakefiles that assume that <code>.</code> is part of the <code>LOAD_PATH</code>, so this broke them (they reported "no such file to load" for all require statements that based off the project path). Was there a particular justification for doing this?</p>
  
  <p>As for a fix, adding <code>$: &lt;&lt; "."</code> everywhere works, but seems incredibly hacky and I don't want to do that. What's the preferred way to make my Rakefiles 1.9.2+ compatible?</p>