From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-08-11T20:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Load & Execute Code From a Database

Paul F Fraser wrote:
> I have tried to locate in the ruby source, what ruby does with a ruby
> file after it loads it with require or load, but the src became a little
> obtuse.
> Does require use eval, or what ruby technique is used to incorporate
> the required code into the system?

load("file.rb") is pretty much the same as eval(File.read("file.rb"))

The source is a bit hard to follow, but ultimately one calls 
rb_compile_file and the other calls rb_compile_string, and both call 
yycompile in parse.c

(I'm looking at 1.8.6 source)
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