From: Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T03:56:59+09:00
Subject: require question

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Hello to the ruby-talkers. It's my first week with ruby, I'm reading Why's=
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poingnant guide currently. I'm not a programmer, my only knowledge is a=20
little php I use to do web stuff and some actionScript cus I do some Flash.=
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I thought of learning to program and Ruby is what I've chosen (even though=
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Eric Raymond says to learn Python is what he thinks is best). Anyways I=20
don't care, Why's poignant guide is funny as hell, and that's it. I wanna b=
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a part of it.

Now my question is (I'm assuming) a very simple one:

I'm trying to use the 'require' Kernel method.

I save a file as 'my_string.rb' and it contains just this:

my_string =3D 'hello world'

On another ruby file saved as 'my_string_reader.rb' I write:

require 'my_string'

puts 'my_string'

I thought that would output my 'hello world', but I get "undefined local=20
variable or method 'my_string' for main:Object (NameError)

I'm using windows xp. But the same problem happened on Ubuntu Linux. Same=
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error. It's the only example from Why's poignant guide that gives me errors=
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It's as if it's not reading the variables I've got stored in the required=
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file.

Thanks for your help.


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-gaston

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