From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T01:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: how to avoid multiple inclusion of a file


On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:34 AM, suresh wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> Will tell you what happened to me. I had some database populating code
> in some import class definitions. By mistake that file got included
> twice and I had to spend a lot of time to figure out how this
> happened. So thats why my question, how can I avoid multiple inclusion
> of files.
>
> suresh


if you are writing the files that are included you can self-protect them

unlss defined? $mylib

module MyLib
end

end


however, if you expect something like rails or ramaze to autoload  
these files in development mode think twice.

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