From: ruby-core@... Date: 2018-09-09T05:28:39+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:88914] [Ruby trunk Feature#14927] Loading multiple files at once Issue #14927 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune). nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote: > Doesn't the order matter? Very often, it does not. If it does, one can always require the one that's needed first, say, then require the whole directory; require won't load the same file twice so this works fine. We wrote a small method for this in `deep-cover`: https://github.com/deep-cover/deep-cover/blob/master/core_gem/lib/deep_cover/tools/require_relative_dir.rb One thing I really like about it is that it makes it clear that the whole directory is loaded. If there's a missing `require "fpm/package/something"` in the list above, it can take a while to notice. My opinion on the feature request: not great for `load`, but could be useful for multiple `require_relative`. ---------------------------------------- Feature #14927: Loading multiple files at once https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14927#change-73951 * Author: deneb (S��bastien Durand) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Just a proof concept I wanted to share. Maybe it could be useful? Say you want to load all the .rb files in your lib directory: ~~~ ruby Dir['lib/**/*.rb'].each { |file| load(file) } ~~~ This approach may not work if your files have dependencies like that: ~~~ ruby # lib/foo.rb class Foo < Bar end ~~~ ~~~ ruby # lib/bar.rb class Bar end ~~~ Foo class needs Bar class. You will get a NameError (uninitialized constant Bar). So in my personal projects, I use this algorithm to load all my files and to automatically take care of dependencies (class/include): ~~~ ruby def boot(files) i = 0 while i < files.length begin load(files[i]) rescue NameError i += 1 else while i > 0 files.push(files.shift) i -= 1 end files.shift end end end ~~~ ~~~ ruby boot Dir['lib/**/*.rb'] # It works! foo.rb and bar.rb are properly loaded. ~~~ My point is: it would be cool if Kernel#load could receive an array of filenames (to load all these files in the proper order). So we could load all our libs with just a single line: ~~~ ruby load Dir['{path1,path2}/**/*.rb'] ~~~ -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: