diff --git a/lib/haml.rb b/lib/haml.rb
index 0a1178e3..ac282e39 100644
--- a/lib/haml.rb
+++ b/lib/haml.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
-$LOAD_PATH << dir unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(dir)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift dir unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(dir)
 
 # = Haml (XHTML Abstraction Markup Language)
 #
diff --git a/lib/sass.rb b/lib/sass.rb
index fc6c3e77..ef8e59d6 100644
--- a/lib/sass.rb
+++ b/lib/sass.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
-$LOAD_PATH << dir unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(dir)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift dir unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(dir)
 
 # = Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
 #