From: Archie Call <archcall@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T14:21:43+09:00
Subject: Re: new to ruby,  "requier" not working?

> ~/projects/test.rb
> ~/projects/wordlist.rb
> 
> 
> test.rb starts with:
> require 'wordlist'
> 
> and wordlist.rb just has:
> words  = {
>     'starmonkeys' => 'Phil and Pete, those prickly chancellors of the
> New Reich',
>     'catapult' => 'chucky go-go', 'firebomb' => 'Heat-Assisted Living',
>     'Nigeria' => "Ny and Jerry's Dry Cleaning (with Donuts)",
>     'Put the kabosh on' => 'Put the cable box on'
>   }
> 
> When i try and run test.rb it says that words is an undefined variable.
> If i put the definition of words directly into the test.rb file it
> works just fine.

Dave,  I am a newbie also.  From the manual "require" and "load" are 
similar.  Maybe try "load 'wordlist.rb'".  Possibly your default 
directory is not ~/projects/ so the file cannot be found.

...Arch

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