From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2006-03-30T09:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Black Belt

James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Dmitry Buzdin wrote:
>
>> Do You want to take part in the creation process of exam series,
>> covering Ruby itself and RoR framework?
>
> Not really, but I doubt you want to hear that.  ;)  So, I better at
> least point some things out.  From your basic exam:

[...]

>> Ruby Environment (1 question)
>
>> Know that RUBYPATH contains a list of directories to look for
>> included files.
>
> This variable is not set on my system, just FYI.

And that's not what RUBYPATH does.  That's what RUBYLIB does.

[...]

>> Understand the difference between require and load commands.
>
> This is not related to modules.
>
>> Know that it is not mandatory to include file extension in 'require/
>> load' directives.
>
> Again, nothing to do with modules.

And furthermore:

[/tmp/slumos]0% touch blah.rb
[/tmp/slumos]0% irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'blah'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> load 'blah'
LoadError: no such file to load -- blah
        from (irb):2:in `load'
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> load 'blah.rb'
=> true

>> Dynamic usage of load command.
>
> Again.
>
> James Edward Gray II

Steve