From: Michael Schoen <schoenm@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T11:18:18+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the difference between require and require_dependency?

> 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" is standard ruby. "require_dependency" is a Rails extension 
that works some magic when operating in development mode (in which Rails 
reloads most of the app classes with each request).