Issue #17473 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). I (finally) made a PR to define most of Pathname in Ruby: https://github.com/ruby/pathname/pull/53 ---------------------------------------- Feature #17473: Make Pathname to embedded class of Ruby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17473#change-113820 * Author: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) * Status: Assigned * Assignee: akr (Akira Tanaka) ---------------------------------------- pathname is one of most useful utility class of Ruby. I'm happy to use Pathname without require it. Any thought? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/