From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T07:05:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel.load() behaviour

On Apr 1, 2005 2:44 PM, Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 22:37, Brian Mitchell wrote:
> > On Apr 1, 2005 11:48 AM, Aredridel <aredridel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Not quite; Each of the 000s of packages is in it's own file....  ;)
> > >
> > > eval "module Packages\n" << `cat *.rb` << "\nend"
> > >
> > > ;-)
> >
> > module Packages
> > end
> >
> > Packages.module_eval( `cat glibc.rb`, 'glibc.rb`) # A little more elegant.
> >
> 
> Almost perfect, but this avoids the external 'cat' dependency:
> 
> Packages.module_eval( IO.readlines('glibc.rb').join, 'glibc.rb')
> 
> I learned some more ruby today. Thanks all!

One more idea that lets one use load and allows anonymous modules:

glibc.rb:
class Glibc
end

some_file.rb:
module Packages
end

class Package
  def self.inherited(sub)
    Packages.const_set(sub.name.split("::").last, sub)
  end
end

load 'glibc.rb', true

# Packages.constants == ["Glibc"]

I also have an idea on how to do this with load my appending the
anonymous module BUT I couldn't get Module.nesting to work and it
seems ruby take some shortcuts in creation of the anon Module. If I
can fix this then we'll all be able to load into specific modules
which would be nice.

Brian.