From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-10-28T14:19:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Stuck with modules/classes/inheritance

On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Kev Jackson wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>
>> On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Kev Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> In lib/b.rb, you need to write:
>>>
>>>> require "base"
>>>> module A
>>>>  class B < Base
>>>>  end
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> otherwise your code in b.rb isn't aware of base.rb, and thus   
>>>> doesn't know about A::Base.
>>>
>>> require 'base'
>>
>> require 'lib/base' then
>
> Thanks, this fixes it - but the actual path 'lib/base' is incorrect  
> in the context of the file b.rb (b.rb is in the same directory as  
> base.rb, therefore the line should be require 'base' no?)

The load path works from Dir.pwd, not the paths of the files you  
require.

ruby -Ilib will allow things to Just Work.

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