From: Matthew Harris <shugotenshi@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T22:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Autoloading objects — Ruby equivalent for PHP5 "__autoload

I do hope you know that there's a lot of things in Ruby that makes a
developer's debugging life quite hard, but the point is that it's
convenient to have these sort of solutions.

On 7/25/06, Gonzalo Garramuno <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar> wrote:
> Naum T. escribi�:
> > Does there exist a Ruby equivalent to PHP5 "magic" __autoload method
> > that spares the developer from detailing a list of "require" statements?
> > http://us2.php.net/autoload
> >
> > Or is this something that a homebrewed solution is necessary? Like
> > catching the exception and testing for file existence, etc.� or is there
> > a gem/extension featuring this functionality?
> >
>
> def Object.const_missing elem
>  require elem.to_s
> end
>
> a = A.new
>
> PS.  I would advise *NOT* doing this kind of thing, thou.  It can make
> your code much harder to debug for other developers.
>
>


-- 
Matt