From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T01:25:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with ruby classes

Alle Monday 02 February 2009, Manisha Tripathy ha scritto:
> Can Anyone please tell me how can we create an object of a class that is
> present in one ruby file, in another ruby file? I tried using .new()
> method but that doesn't seem to work.It simply cannot find the required
> file.
> It works when I create an object of class inside the same file ,but not
> in another file.
>
> For example , lets say there is a file , file1.rb which contains class
> File1
> there is another file named file2.rb , that contains another class File2
>
> I want to use the methods in file1.rb inside class File2 in file2.rb
> Can someone tell how can I do that?
>
> My codes are somewhat like this
>
> # file1.rb
> class File1
>  def method1
>  end
> end
>
> #file2.rb
> object = File1.new
> class File2
> end
>
>
> The error while running file2.rb is
>
> file2.rb:3: uninitialized constant File1 (NameError)

Add

require 'file1'

somewhere before the call to File1.new in file2.rb

Stefano