From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-28T15:05:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ten Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby

Navindra Umanee wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the tips and insightful commentary to you and Joao.  I'd be
> interested in seeing the Rails code for recursive require.
> 

This isn't Rails code, but it's recursive loading code:

def require( str )
   if File.exist?( str )
     Dir["#{str}/**/*.rb"].each do |file|
       require file[0..-4]
     end
   else
     super
   end
end

Make a test few subdirectories "mymodule", and a few directories beneath 
that, and a few test ".rb" scripts....

require "mymodule"

will recursively load all the .rb files in the directory mymodule and 
subdirectories.


Zach