From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-07-16T04:55:56+09:00
Subject: Re: require_all 1.0.0: A wonderfully simple way to load your

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm.  I too wish that ruby core had something like
>
> require_relative 'lib/a.rb'
> or require_all 'lib/*.rb'
> or require_all 'lib' => require_all 'lib/*.rb' or require_all
> 'lib/init.rb'
>
> Thoughts?
>

I really would like to see this in core for one reason: with a pure Ruby
solution it's incredibly difficult if not impossible to play nice with
ActiveSupport's dependencies.rb.  The require_all gem contains some hacks
specific to ActiveSupport to try to play nicely, but I've still run into
cases where I have to adjust code to keep various mechanisms in
ActiveSupport's dependency loader from freaking out.

I am really curious how rails core plans to get the Merb and ActiveSupport
approaches to loading code working nicely together, or for that matter, why
Merb users using ActiveRecord as their ORM (and vicariously ActiveSupport)
don't run into "is not missing constant" errors more frequently, especially
in multithreaded programs.

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Tony Arcieri
medioh.com

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