From: harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)
Date: 2001-04-22T15:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14016] Automatic inclusion of modules

I've written some cde that I'd like to be available to all of my Ruby
programs, without having to do a "Require 'xxx'" in every one.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Since things like Object are defined without me having to specify
anything in my source, I fugured there might be some place I could
specify other modules to be included every time the interpreter is
run.

In case anyone's interested, what it does is allow me to do things
like ...

   fred = new Fred("hello", 1, new Time());

rather than

   fred = Fred.new("hello", 1, Time.new());

Having written C++ and Java for so long, I'm always using the former
by mistake and having to fix it.

At the moment, I'm quite happy to live with the minor extra call
overhead ... although, I'll probably profile it one of these days and
discover that my code's spending all it's time handling my Luddite
code :-).

TIA