From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T04:55:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Mutual require problem

On 3/2/06, renaud delbru <renaud.delbru@deri.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with the require method.
>
> First file 'main.rb':
>
>
> > require 'test'
> >
> > class A
> >       def self.print
> >               p "test"
> >       end
> > end
> >
> > Test.print
>
> Second file 'test.rb':
>
> > require 'main'
> >
> > class Test < A
> > end
>
> And the result during the execution :
> workspace/test-divers/main.rb:10: uninitialized constant Test
> (NameError)
>


Circular requires are a bad thing.
See http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/178329.

To avoid them, try the ruby equivalent of a forward declaration: In
test.rb, replace
> require 'main'
with
> class A; end

-Adam