From: Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T05:12:47+09:00
Subject: Re: require question

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Thanks Brian and Why. I see why it wasn't working.

And thanks for the new URL of the poignant guide.

-gaston.

On 8/18/05, why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
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> Gaston Garcia wrote:
> > 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 loca=
l
> > variable or method 'my_string' for main:Object (NameError)
> >
> Gaston, welcome to Rubydom. We've proven that we can be funny, but now
> you get to see how helpful we are.
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> This is an error in the book. You might want to read the newer version
> at...
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> http://qa.poignantguide.net/
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> ...for now. I'm working on a new design and the book has a bunch of
> fixes on that site.
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> In the new version, you'll notice I'm storing stuff in the CODE_WORDS
> constant rather than a code_words variable. Ordinary variables cannot
> be loaded through a `require'. But constants can.
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> That's all. Nothing more.
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> _why
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-gaston

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