From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-10T15:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of "source" in ruby?

2007/9/7, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
> 2007/9/7, Todd A. Jacobs <tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@codegnome.org>:
> > 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?
>
> It is also unsafe - not only because of the eval but also because this
> will give errors for expressions that span multiple lines.  The easy
> fix would be
>
> eval(File.read(rc_file))
>
> But I'd rather resort to one of the other suggestions (namely using
> local variables).

That was intended to read "global" of course. Sorry for the noise.

robert