From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T05:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: application structure

On 8/8/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Gabriele wrote:
>
> > If you start creating subdirectories in your lib dir, I don't think
> > the classes therein need to have any relationship to the other
> > classes. You would simply note the extra directory in your require
> > statements in your code: "require 'vecmath/matrix'", require
> > 'crystal/tetrahedron'", or whatever. The subdirectories are only there
> > to help you keep organized, and aren't required.
>
> Not so. You should be thoughtful about what you put in the toplevel.
> It's very easy to wipe out someone elses file this way. In general you
> should ALWAYS put your files in a subdir named after your project. And
> if need be, have one .rb file with the same name that the lib's user
> can require.

Sorry for being unclear: Everything I wrote in my post refers to your
own app's lib  directory.

For example, if I do all my work in /home/john/dev/ruby, and my
project is called "gemstones", then my project directory will be
/home/john/dev/ruby/gemstones, and might contain stuff such as:

gemstones/
    bin/
    conf/
    data/
    docs/
    lib/
        gemstones.rb
        vecmath/
            point.rb
            vector.rb
            matrix.rb
        crystal/
            tetrahedron.rb
    test/
        ...

---John