From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T11:09:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Making "require" just work with some dynamic load path manipulation


On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Greg Hurrell wrote:

> On 7 mar, 22:01, "Trans" <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a reason you are not using setup.rb and/or gems?
>>
>> T.
>
> Neither of those is really appropriate because the files "a.rb" and
> "b.rb" are dynamically generated and probably not very long lived (the
> typical cycle will be: generate, use, throw away) and definitely not
> worth installing permanently. The thing that generates those files is
> actually distributed as a gem so there are no problems at that level;
> I just want the generated files to be as easy to use for end users as
> possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg


	IF you want to garauntee to require b in the same dir as a you can  
do this:

# a.rb
puts "in a.rb"
require File.join(FIle.dirname(__FILE__), 'b')

# b.rb
puts "in b.rb"

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