diff --git a/lib/MonetDB.rb b/lib/MonetDB.rb
index 854e9e6c3ee0b0dcb2fff246e91e7c975c8f88e7..61506a92fbd0fe7869a95e1986220b77173f0df1 100644
--- a/lib/MonetDB.rb
+++ b/lib/MonetDB.rb
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@
     #
     # demo.rb contains usage example of the above mentioned methods.
 
-require_relative 'MonetDBConnection'
-require_relative 'MonetDBData'
-require_relative 'MonetDBExceptions'
+require 'MonetDBConnection'
+require 'MonetDBData'
+require 'MonetDBExceptions'
 
 class MonetDB
   DEFAULT_USERNAME = "monetdb"
diff --git a/lib/MonetDBConnection.rb b/lib/MonetDBConnection.rb
index 759f1bbf5163443d63d9becd23b80c0a7a01546f..6cd049548471accb3e002eae228ea75c7b25c969 100644
--- a/lib/MonetDBConnection.rb
+++ b/lib/MonetDBConnection.rb
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
 require 'socket'
 require 'time'
-require_relative 'hasher'
-require_relative 'MonetDBExceptions'
+require 'hasher'
+require 'MonetDBExceptions'
 require 'uri'   # parse merovingian redirects
 
 class MonetDBConnection
diff --git a/lib/MonetDBData.rb b/lib/MonetDBData.rb
index 8abe754700fbd91d3e0a0b6725ffd86fd5e7d7fe..f9997e54b74092029ede2c23bd98ab2cc5f3e49a 100644
--- a/lib/MonetDBData.rb
+++ b/lib/MonetDBData.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require 'ostruct'
 
 require "bigdecimal"
 
-require_relative 'MonetDBConnection'
+require 'MonetDBConnection'
 
 require 'logger'