From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T09:09:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Autoloading objects �? Ruby equivalent for?

On 3/20/07, Piotr Biedruna <p.biedruna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mat Schaffer wrote:
>
> > const_missing is a little more like PHP's __autoload function.
> >
> > The following, for example will attempt to just do: require <object
> > name> in the event it can't find the class.
> >
> > def Object.const_missing name
> >   require name.to_s.downcase
> >   const_get(name)
> > end
>
> Well, th const_missing sollution does work, but only in scripts called
> directly in shell by 'ruby' executable. When using it in script called
> in browser i get:
>
> [Tue Mar 20 16:56:49 2007] [error] mod_ruby: error in ruby
> [Tue Mar 20 16:56:49 2007] [error] mod_ruby:
> /home/services/httpd/html/TRON/ruby/index.rb:11: uninitialized constant
> #<Module:0xb6a6ea30>::Test (NameError)
> [Tue Mar 20 16:56:49 2007] [error] mod_ruby:   from
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:38:in `load'
> [Tue Mar 20 16:56:49 2007] [error] mod_ruby:   from
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:38:in `handler'
>
> Got apache 2.2 with mod_ruby configured as follows:
>
> LoadModule ruby_module  modules/mod_ruby.so
>
> <IfModule mod_ruby.c>
>
>         AddType text/html .rb
>
>         RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
>
>         <Files *.rb>
>                 Options +ExecCGI
>                 SetHandler ruby-object
>                 RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
>         </Files>
>
> </IfModule>
>
> What i`ve been trying to get is an equivalent of PHP __autoload()
> routine working under both shell execution and apache handler. Know any?
>
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>
>

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