From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T06:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading classes in order

El Viernes 03 Abril 2009, Elias Orozco escribió:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > El Viernes 03 Abril 2009, Elias Orozco escribió:
> >> I haven't require yet. So can anyone help or give me any hint on how to
> >> load them all dynamically and deal with those dependencies?
> >
> > path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/files_dir"
> >
> > require "#{path}/required_file1"
> > require "#{path}/required_file2"
> > require "#{path}/required_file3"
> >
> > Dir.chdir(path)
> > Dir["*.rb"].each do |file|
> >         require "#{path}/#{file}"
> > end
>
> Thanks Inaki, but in that example I will have to specify the require
> files and that's exactly what I don't want. A lot of classes will be
> copied into that folder and I can't hard-code all those requires.

When failing due to a non existing class, Ruby raises a NameError exception.
Then you can add something as:

---------------------------
failed_files=[]

path = xxxxxx
Dir.chdir(path)

Dir["*.rb"].each do |file|
  begin
    require "#{path}/#{file}"
  rescue NameError
    failed_files << file
  end
end

failed_files.each do |file|
  require "#{path}/#{file}"
end
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(It should be very improved however).

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>