From: Asfand Yar Qazi <ay1204@...2s.com>
Date: 2005-02-20T20:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting a method or class within a file

Pit Capitain wrote:
> Asfand Yar Qazi schrieb:
> 
>> I want to be able to do the following:
>>
>> lots of Ruby files are in a directory, each containing stuff and a 
>> method 'init_file'.  I want to be able to 'require' each file, and 
>> then call the 'init_file' method within that file.
>>
>> Each file will have its own 'init_file' method, so I can't just do a:
>>
>> require 'file'
>> init_file
>>
>> because the init_file method will have been defined before hand.
> 
> 
> Not that I would recommend that, but you can do
> 
>   require 'file1'
>   init_file
> 
>   require 'file2'
>   init_file
> 
> because the init_file method of file2 will overwrite the init_file 
> method of file1.
> 
> But: of course this is bad style. Where do your Ruby files come from? 
> Can't you wrap the code in each file in a class or module?
> 

It's also thread-unsafe.

You're right.  I think what I'll do is to have a combination of a 
Module name and a filename that will allow there to be an init method 
contained within 'Module', contained within 'file'.

But then I'll have to store 2 entries: filename and module name.  But 
I suppose that's ok.  Perhaps I should use the following syntax:

Module@path/to/file.rb

to show that a module is in a certain file?