[ruby-talk:14047] Re: Automatic inclusion of modules

In article <3ae25f14.80438284@news-server>, [e-mail] 
wrote:

> 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
> 
Perhaps this isn't what you're looking for, but there's the -r 
command-line option which requires the named library before executing. 
Since you can put command-line options in the env variable RUBYOPT, 
perhaps this might do what you're looking for?
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