From: Charles Steinman <acharlieblue@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T05:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: require question


Gaston Garcia wrote:
> 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 = '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
> variable or method 'my_string' for main:Object (NameError)

That's because require doesn't import local variables from a file. They
stay local to the file they are in. If you make the variable a
constant, global or instance variable, then it will work.