From: Greg Willits <lists@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T16:43:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Processing code file inline

Dang, thought of one more thing right after I sent this and it worked.

I needed to use @index_33dob instead of index_33dob in order to have the 
var from the loaded file available to the script.

-- gw



Greg Willits wrote:
> I need to have a script load a file and execute that file as if it was
> code inline to the script. The file being loaded is not a class, not a
> module. It is code that has been dynamically written by another process.
> 
> Example:
> 
> # file to load
> index_33dob.store("NatVir20000515".to_sym, 67)
> index_33dob.store("MicSwa19920210".to_sym, 85)
> index_33dob.store("AshSmi19950827".to_sym, 19)
> index_33dob.store("IvaCov20021108".to_sym, 45)
> index_33dob.store("CatOrt19950128".to_sym, 83)
> 
> # contrived script to load the file and process it
> timer_start = Time.new
> index_33dob = {}
> include "33dob_entries.rb"  # <<--- WHAT DO HERE ?
> timer_stop = Time.new
> puts "#{timer_stop - timer_start}"
> p index_33dob
> 
> 
> In other languages I have used, the command include would be used to
> integrate the 33dob_entries.rb file as inline code, but neither Ruby's
> include nor require can be used to do this AFAICT.
> 
> How would I do this with Ruby ?
> 
> (I am writing some data structures to disk as code instead of using
> Marshal because it is actually much much faster than reconstituing the
> data via Marshal, and that re-loading performance is critical to the
> app).
> 
> thx
> 
> -- gw

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