From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T03:56:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading classes in order

El Sábado 04 Abril 2009, Elias Orozco escribió:
> The app I'm working on is an online editor where a user create classes
> that connect to back-ends and fetch data. The users can create classes
> and have them all in their personal folder (security issues with this
> type of apps are high, I'm working on that too). So basically when the
> user wants to initialize an object of a class that depends on another
> one I don't want uninitialized constant errors. I could make require as
> it is the way is intended to do as you say. But I have seen that when I
> put all those classes in the rails lib folder, for example, they're all
> loaded without problem when I initialize the server and I can make an
> instance object of any class without any error. I want something like
> that.

Another approach would be loading first a file containing all the classes 
"declaration", this is:

----------
class AAA ; end
class BBB ; end
[...]
----------

and later load all the files with classes real "definition".

Not sure if this option is suitable in your case however.

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