From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T22:58:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27929] Re: "load" without looking in $LOAD_PATH ?

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Johan Holmberg wrote:

> Yes, but that would just give another twist of undesired behaviour:
> 
>     - if the local file was missing, I could still "accidentally"
>       get a file from somewhere else in the $LOAD_PATH
> 
>     - the change would affect further require/load at other places
>       in other modules. Way to *global*.
> 
> I want the different search-behaviour of "load" to be applied
> locally, just for one particular call.
> 
Well, the docs for load says:

$ ri Kernel::load
----------------------------------------------------------- Kernel::load
     load( aFileName, wrap=false ) -> true
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Loads and executes the Ruby program in the file aFileName. If the
     filename does not resolve to an absolute path, the file is searched
     for in the library directories listed in $:. If the optional wrap

so giving an absolute path is probably the way to go. If you still want to
do it by hand then why not:

  alias old_load load

  def load(aString, wrap = false, first = false)
    old_load(aString, wrap)
    $:.shift if first && ($:.first == ".")
  end

  def local_load(aString)
    $:.unshift "."
    load(aString, false, true)
  end

and call with

  local_load "myfile"

when you want your behavior. Its not elegant and there are probably better
ways but anyway...

Regards,

RobertF