From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T06:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: load paths unions?


On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Trans wrote:

>
> Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
>> cd facets
>> for each in ../facets/*/*.rb
>>    do ln -s $each
>> done
>
> Unfortuately that's not cross-platform.
>
> T.
>
>

Make a rake task to do it? But instead of ln -s just spit out

require 'facets/foo/foo.rb'

into a file. Ok it's a hack, but require ain't exactly Java's import  
or  C#'s using (which is a good thing, IMO).

If you do want this, and you want to do it the "right" (where "right"  
meets my definition of "right" :) ) way, I think your best bet is  
build a package/module system, and make it clear that what you are  
doing is a little smarter than require (aka  
load_once_if_you_dont_trick_me_somehow_anyway)

e.g.:

require 'facets/manager'
import 'factes.foo.*'

Or whatever you want the interface to be.


And you can add your .pth type features to this, etc.