From: Michael Judge <mjudge@...>
Date: 2006-02-04T17:44:27+09:00
Subject: I Broke Ruby (i.e. Missing the Brutally Obvious)


It's been yet another late Friday.  It's practically a lifestyle by this 
point.  (I'm glad my wife understands.) So anyway, things were going 
fine until I tried to get two ruby files to require each other. 
Suddenly the class defined in the first file was considered 
"uninitialized."

Here's some code demonstrating the error:

Type into IRB:
  require "a"
  NameError: uninitialized constant A
        from ./b.rb:3
        from ./a.rb:1
        from (irb):3

Place these files in the same directory you call irb in:

  File a.rb
    require "b"

    class A < Array
      # Do nothing
    end

  File b.rb
    require "a"

    class B < A
      # Do nothing
    end

Where's the brutally obvious mistake I made?  Why would A be an 
uninitialized constant?

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