From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T20:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem update of Rails - Skipping require of dynamic string

Francis Hwang ha scritto:

> Unless I misunderstand autoload (I've never used it), it won't help what 
> I need. Basically, the Lafcadio ObjectStore uses method_missing more 
> than I've ever seen it used, to make the ObjectStore instance a proxy 
> for a bunch of different ways to query a database. The most common usage 
> is:
> 
> os = ObjectStore.get_object_store
> client = os.get_client( 1 )
> 
> Now, the ObjectStore can only load a Client if it's already loaded the 
> Client class.

and this is where autoload would come, it loads the Client class 
whenever it is used for the first time.

> I wanted to support a bunch of different ways of doing 
> this, and one of them is having a domain directory with each class 
> living in a file of the same name.
> 
> /domain_classes/Client.rb
> /domain_classes/Invoice.rb
> /domain_classes/Project.rb
> etc.
> 
> (this is only one way to organize the domain classes in Lafcadio; these 
> days I find I don't use this much, myself.)
> 
> So one of the things Lafcadio tries to do is load the class by doing a 
> dynamic require:
> 
> require "domain_classes/#{ domain_class_name }"
> 
> So you don't have to explicitly require those files yourself.

ah, now I see what you mean, thanks for taking time to explain :)