From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T16:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: require of a .file

Ah. Thanks. That would be it.

My goal was to use the .xxxrc convention, but actually execute it
rather then read and parse it. I expect "load" should suffice.

Does anyone know of any ruby code that does something similar?

Thanks,
Nick


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:01:20 +0900, Greg Millam
<ruby-talk@lethalcode.net> wrote:
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
>  > I'm attempting to do a user config file as a ruby script to be
>  > required- e.g. ~/.myrc
>  >
>  > load ENV['HOME'] + "/.myrc"
>  > works, but "require" fails in its place saying it can't find .myrc. Is
>  > this a bug in require?
> 
> 'require' tacks on ".rb" and ".so" to the filename to find it.
> 
> So unless it's named ".myrc.rb," require won't find it.
> 
> - Greg
> 
> 


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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg