From: Clifford Heath <clifford.heath@...>
Date: 2012-08-01T06:02:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46903] Re: (Half-baked DRAFT) new `require' framework

On 01/08/2012, at 5:59 AM, Trans wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>> I would dearly love to see Proposal-1, with the added proviso that I'd
>> also like to be able to *prevent* .rb- and .so-loading from the
>> filesystem, so the mechanism which occurred to me was a modifiable array
>> of loaders, queried in sequence.  But that's getting ahead of things :-)
> 
> Is is? Here is related work that does exactly that:
> https://github.com/rubyworks/loadable

My "polyglot" gem is already a very widely-used solution to this problem
as well, with over 8 million downloads - the 11th most-downloaded gem.
It's used by Treetop, which is pulled in by Cucumber and Rails' mailer.
Far from being complicated and big, it's just 60 lines of Ruby. No C
extension is needed.

https://github.com/cjheath/polyglot
http://rubygems.org/gems/polyglot

Clifford Heath, Data Constellation, http://dataconstellation.com