From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T02:30:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent to source command

On Feb 12, 10:11 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> A global is probably much more appropriate here.  If the code you
> source somehow generates configuration settings then maybe you can set
> a global Hash that will receive values.  It depends on the larger
> context of what you want to achieve.

In cases like this, I've found it helpful to define a method that
returns the configuration hash:

$ echo "def config; {:a => 2}; end" | ruby -e 'eval(ARGF.read,
binding); puts config[:a]'