From: Dylan Evans <dylan.star@...>
Date: 2009-02-11T21:40:53+09:00
Subject: Re: require behaviour

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Maran Chandrasekar <
maran.asterisk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear folks,
>   I'm new to ruby, Please explain the following snippet's behavior
>
> def require( *packages )


Override require with an array an variable length argument list, which will
be an array in the function


>
>        packages.each{ | pack |

Iterate through the list  where pack is the current item.


>
>                super( pack );

Send the current item to the ogiginal require.


>
>        }
> end
> require('rubygems','actionmailer')


Which allows you to require more than one item at a time.
Hope this helps.

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