diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/CompiledScriptLoader.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/CompiledScriptLoader.java
index a7ce1d68df4..7f39d835191 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/CompiledScriptLoader.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/CompiledScriptLoader.java
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@
 package org.jruby.runtime.load;
 
 import org.jruby.Ruby;
-import org.jruby.RubyFile;
 import org.jruby.ir.IRScope;
 import org.jruby.util.JRubyClassLoader;
-import org.jruby.util.JRubyFile;
 import org.jruby.util.OneShotClassLoader;
 import org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader;
 
@@ -28,57 +26,63 @@
  */
 public class CompiledScriptLoader {
     public static IRScope loadScriptFromFile(Ruby runtime, InputStream inStream, File resourcePath, String resourceName, boolean isAbsolute) {
-        InputStream in = null;
+        String name = getFilenameFromPathAndName(resourcePath, resourceName, isAbsolute);
         try {
-            in = new BufferedInputStream(inStream, 8192);
-            String name = normalizeSeps(resourceName);
-            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-            byte[] buf = new byte[8196];
-            int read = 0;
-            while ((read = in.read(buf)) != -1) {
-                baos.write(buf, 0, read);
-            }
-            buf = baos.toByteArray();
-            JRubyClassLoader jcl = runtime.getJRubyClassLoader();
-            OneShotClassLoader oscl = new OneShotClassLoader(jcl);
-
-            ClassReader cr = new ClassReader(buf);
-            String className = cr.getClassName().replace('/', '.');
-
-            Class clazz = oscl.defineClass(className, buf);
-
-            File path = resourcePath;
-
-            if(path != null && !isAbsolute) {
-                // Note: We use RubyFile's canonicalize rather than Java's,
-                // because Java's will follow symlinks and result in __FILE__
-                // being set to the target of the symlink rather than the
-                // filename provided.
-                name = normalizeSeps(canonicalize(path.getPath()));
-            }
+            Class clazz = loadCompiledScriptFromClass(runtime, inStream);
 
             try {
                 Method method = clazz.getMethod("loadIR", Ruby.class, String.class);
                 return (IRScope)method.invoke(null, runtime, name);
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                e.printStackTrace();
-                // fall through
+                if (runtime.getDebug().isTrue()) {
+                    e.printStackTrace();
+                }
+                throw runtime.newLoadError(name + " is not compiled Ruby; use java_import to load normal classes");
             }
-
-            throw runtime.newLoadError("use `java_import' to load normal Java classes: "+className);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw runtime.newIOErrorFromException(e);
         } catch (LinkageError le) {
             if (runtime.getDebug().isTrue()) {
                 le.printStackTrace();
             }
-            throw runtime.newLoadError("Linkage error loading compiled script; you may need to recompile '" + resourceName + "': " + le);
+            throw runtime.newLoadError("Linkage error loading compiled script; you may need to recompile '" + name + "': " + le);
         } finally {
             try {
-                in.close();
+                inStream.close();
             } catch (IOException ioe) {
                 throw runtime.newIOErrorFromException(ioe);
             }
         }
     }
+
+    private static Class loadCompiledScriptFromClass(Ruby runtime, InputStream in) throws IOException {
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        byte[] buf = new byte[8192];
+        int read;
+        while ((read = in.read(buf)) != -1) {
+            baos.write(buf, 0, read);
+        }
+        buf = baos.toByteArray();
+        JRubyClassLoader jcl = runtime.getJRubyClassLoader();
+        OneShotClassLoader oscl = new OneShotClassLoader(jcl);
+
+        ClassReader cr = new ClassReader(buf);
+        String className = cr.getClassName().replace('/', '.');
+
+        return oscl.defineClass(className, buf);
+    }
+
+    public static String getFilenameFromPathAndName(File resourcePath, String resourceName, boolean isAbsolute) {
+        String name = normalizeSeps(resourceName);
+        File path = resourcePath;
+
+        if(path != null && !isAbsolute) {
+            // Note: We use RubyFile's canonicalize rather than Java's,
+            // because Java's will follow symlinks and result in __FILE__
+            // being set to the target of the symlink rather than the
+            // filename provided.
+            name = normalizeSeps(canonicalize(path.getPath()));
+        }
+        return name;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/ExternalScript.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/ExternalScript.java
index 5b0d79e2c12..9e0a547e04f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/ExternalScript.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/ExternalScript.java
@@ -48,25 +48,15 @@ public void load(Ruby runtime, boolean wrap) {
         InputStream in = null;
         try {
             in = resource.getInputStream();
-            String name = normalizeSeps(resource.getName());
+            String name = resource.getName();
 
             if (runtime.getInstanceConfig().getCompileMode().shouldPrecompileAll()) {
                 runtime.compileAndLoadFile(name, in, wrap);
             } else {
-                java.io.File path = resource.getPath();
-
-                if(path != null && !resource.isAbsolute()) {
-                    // Note: We use RubyFile's canonicalize rather than Java's,
-                    // because Java's will follow symlinks and result in __FILE__
-                    // being set to the target of the symlink rather than the
-                    // filename provided.
-                    name = normalizeSeps(canonicalize(path.getPath()));
-                }
+                name = CompiledScriptLoader.getFilenameFromPathAndName(resource.getPath(), name, resource.isAbsolute());
 
                 runtime.loadFile(name, new LoadServiceResourceInputStream(in), wrap);
             }
-
-
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw runtime.newIOErrorFromException(e);
         } finally {
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/LibrarySearcher.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/LibrarySearcher.java
index 1a6aaa28fd5..9b8f7d4bff2 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/LibrarySearcher.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/runtime/load/LibrarySearcher.java
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ public void load(Ruby runtime, boolean wrap) {
                 // Depending on the side-effect of the load, which loads the class but does not turn it into a script.
                 // I don't like it, but until we restructure the code a bit more, we'll need to quietly let it by here.
                 if (script == null) return;
-
+                
                 runtime.loadScope(script, wrap);
             } catch(IOException e) {
                 throw runtime.newLoadError("no such file to load -- " + searchName, searchName);