From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-11-02T13:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: urirequire: I got yer Web 2.0 right here

Jeff Wood wrote:
> lib ???
>
> shouldn't that be like 4 lines???
>
> def net_eval( url )
> require 'open-uri'
> eval open( url ).readlines.join
> end

Yeah, something like that. Actually right now urirequire clocks in at
23 lines, because of certain edge cases, and the fact that it uses
Kernel.require, not a new method. Of course, the utility and elegance
of such an override is quite debatable.

At any rate, it's definitely quite small. Sometimes I package small
seeds of functionality into libs, because Rubygems makes managing tiny
libs easy, and because copy-and-paste makes the baby Jesus cry.

>
> ???!??!?!? ( or something similar to that ) ... and yeah, it takes real guts
> to run code you don't own.
>
> BTW, your test URL ... is 404.

Remember that when you require open-uri the file isn't actually
"open-uri" -- it usually ends with an ".rb". Apply this analogously to
a URI, and you'll get around that little 404 hurdle.

f.