Time to change to require_relative?

[MSP-Greg]

Have a branch prepared for a PR, so I thought I'd ask first.

Any reason to not change all require statements to require_relative?

See https://github.com/ruby/ruby/search?q=require_relative, and #2381

Ruby master has now copied all the methods Puma used from io/wait to IO. I originally started the PR for that, as io/wait won't need to be required for Ruby 3.2 and later. I.think. I haven't tested it yet, but I think the only methods used in Puma are wait_readable and wait_writable...

[nateberkopec]

Can we avoid breaking CentOS?

[MSP-Greg]

Can we avoid breaking CentOS?

I interpreted #2381 to mean that all ruby files could be loaded with require_relative, but any *.so files needed to be loaded with require. We only have one puma_http11.

We could use require_relative, and if an error is raised, load via require...

[nateberkopec]

Cool! Full speed ahead then 🚆