From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T06:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleanup & requires & so on


"Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com> wrote in message 
news:44D3A3C8.1020403@textuality.com...
> I'm just finishing up my first real chunk of Ruby work, and it's sitting 
> in a dozen different .rb files, and obviously there was a lot of 
> refactoring along the way.  Is there a tool that can look at my code and 
> make sure that I don't have extra 'require's and highlight other 
> bookkeeping errors & so on?  I'm used to NetBeans, and it just takes care 
> of this stuff for you.

    I somehow doubt you have to worry about extraneous "requires" anymore 
than you'd have to worry about extra "includes" in a C project...  I think 
it's fair and, in fact, desirable to "require" whatever that source file 
requires (hence the choice of keyword...)...