From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-05-22T05:05:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Anonymous module undefined method error

johng wrote:
...
> So, what I wanted to do, was have a class defined in a file and call
> a known method on it.  For instance:
> 
> class Bar
>   def Bar.foo
>     return "foo"
>   end
> end
> 
> But I will not know the class name contained in the file (Bar).  I
> tried
> the approach from the original post so that I could call a defined
> method that would instantiate the class for me.  I believe I can do
> this now relatively easily.  It does though put more requirements
> on the file.

This may be of use to you:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/script/

It's a very simple but useful way to load a ruby script and access the 
methods, classes, and other constants defined in it.