From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2008-05-04T00:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: "require" with many files

I�aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> 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?

If you say

$: << theDirectory

then you can just require the files by name, I believe... m.


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