From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T08:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the difference between require and require_dependency?

Dan Bikle wrote:

>People,
>What's the difference between require and require_dependency?
>
>I looked here for clues:
>http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
>and I could not find either one.
>  
>
require loads a file (shared object or ruby source) once from the load path.

require_dependency isn't a ruby core feature, it's part of rails. It 
remembers the given
file and loads it on each new server request (like load "path/file.rb" 
does), if development mode is enabled:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RequireDependency

-- 
Florian Frank