From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T02:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: remote require (was [Painfully OT] A python question...)

On 4/10/07, Luis Parravicini <lparravi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, I happen to enjoy Python and Ruby.
> >
> > Importing modules from zip files was proposed in PEP-273 [1]
>
>   Reading about importing from a zip file in Python made me think
> whether I could do the same in ruby. A quick google search showed up
> it can be done with rubyzip [1].
>
> Then I thought: what about remote requires? (I don't think right now
> it could be really useful but it sounds interesting to play with). I
> found several threads ([2], [3]) talking about a net-require module
> coded by Tanaka Akira.

You might want to check out Francis Hwang's uri-require.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/urirequire/