rubygems/rubygems — pull request #663 by tenderlove (2013-09-30 21:13:21+00:00)
Title: require should accept a Pathname object like Kernel#require

Hi,

Kernel#require accepts a `Pathname` object (actually [any object that responds to `to_path`](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/e1bb07105fec078067c269229e9e29a2a6d0280e/file.c#L188-189)), but Rubygems' `require` does not. Here is a demo:

```
$ ruby -rpathname -e'require Pathname.new("psych")'
$ ruby -rpathname -e'require "active_record"'
$ ruby -rpathname -e'require Pathname.new("active_record")'
/Users/aaron/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0-dev/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:109:in `end_with?': no implicit conversion of Pathname into String (TypeError)
from /Users/aaron/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0-dev/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:109:in `rescue in require'
from /Users/aaron/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0-dev/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:35:in `require'
from -e:1:in `

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```

This pull request has a test case. I haven't looked in to fixing it. :-)