From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T02:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: "require" with many files

Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Hi, is there any preferred way to load/require all the fiels
> in a directory?
> For example, my main file does:
>
>   require "header.rb"
>
> and file "header.rb" must load all the related files contained in
> "headers/" directory. I do the following in "header.rb":
>
>   headers_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/headers'
>   Dir.chdir(headers_path) Dir["*.rb"].each do |file|
>       require "#{headers_path}/#{file}"
>   end
>
> Is it enought ok or can it receive some Ruby's magic? XD
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.

You do use Ruby magic here ;-). The only thing I would suggest is that if you do not have to set the current directory to headers_path for some other reason, use this variation:

  Dir[File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'headers', "*.rb")].each do |file|
      require file
  end

Gennady.