From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T18:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: practices

2006/4/19, Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>:
> Is there anything of a best practices on how to use your own modules?
>
> I've been doing a LOT of this in perl and have just started to play with it in Ruby.
>
> Some things I am transistioning from are:
> use lib -- how do I specify an alternate location for files?

There is an env var, I believe it's RUBY_LIB.

> modules/object/files:
> It may be bad form to put more than on class in a single file, I know it is in
> Perl.  But is there a reason not to?  I have some classes that are very tightly
> related in inheritance and they are very small.  I don't see much advantage to
> ever physically breaking them apart.

Then don't do it.  It's fine to have them in the same file.

Kind regards

robert

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