From: "Naum T." <naum@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T00:45:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Autoloading objects — Ruby equivalent for?

That's seems to be the ticket.

Knew about ruby autoload, but you have to specify up front each 
module/file whereis PHP5, it's (but named "__autoload") a "catch all".

One solution is to glob the directory (where I have my classes stored) 
and issue autoload for each result:

# assumes my custom classes begin with upper case
Dir.glob('[A-Z]*.rb').each do |f|
  rsym = f.gsub("[.]rb$", '')
  autoload(:#{rsym}, f)
end

> 
> const_missing is a little more like PHP's __autoload function.
> 
> The following, for example will attempt to just do: require <object
> name> in the event it can't find the class.
> 
> def Object.const_missing name
> 	require name.to_s.downcase
> 	const_get(name)
> end
> 
> I've never used it though, so anyone can feel free to correct me for
> any gotchas that I'm not aware of.
> -Mat


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