From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T19:53:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of "source" in ruby?

2007/9/7, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com>:
>
>  On Fri, 2007-07-09 at 14:17 +0900, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>  Contrary to my expectations, if I have some variable assignments in an
> external file, I can't simply call:
>
>     load rcfile
>
> to have it sourced. Instead, I found myself having to do this:
>
>     IO.foreach(rcfile) do |line|
> 	eval line
>     end
>
> which seems lame. Is there a better way?
>
>
>  #test1.rb:
>
>      @a = 5
>      @b = 4
>
>      require 'test2'
>
>      p @a
>      p @b
>      p @c
>   #----8<-----
>
>  #test2.rb:
>
>      @b = 3
>      @c = 2
>
>  $ ruby test1.rb
>  5
>  3
>  2
>  $
>
>  Or am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing the local variable bit. :-)

robert