From: Christoffer Sawicki <christoffer.sawicki@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T05:11:41+09:00
Subject: Re: "load"ing a file and keeping the current scope?

On 5/8/06, Philip Hallstrom <ruby@philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
> How can I include the contents of magic_file.rb into both a and b "as is".
> I've tried load() and it changes the scope so that magic_file.rb doesn't
> realize it's in A or B.
>
> I guess I'm looking for the PHP include() equivalent.
>
> I realize this is a weird question and I realize in most situations this
> is *not* the way to do it, but I don't have a choice... so please no "do
> it this other way" solutions :)

I believe the following is your only choice:

  eval File.read("magic_file.rb")

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Christoffer Sawicki