From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-04-15T09:23:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Where's DATA?

On Apr 14, 2008, at 07:21 AM, Trans wrote:
> Anyone have any idea why I would be getting?
>
>  uninitialized constant Box::Command::DATA (NameError)
>
> when DATA is supposed to reference the text below __END__? This error
> doesn't make any sense to me.
>
>  $ ruby -v
>  ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [x86_64-linux]

$ cat data.rb
p DATA.read
__END__
woo!
$ ruby data.rb
"woo!\n"
$ ruby -r data -e 0
./data.rb:1: uninitialized constant DATA (NameError)

There is only one DATA, there is not a DATA per file.

PS: This is more appropriate for ruby-talk.