From: Kenny Tilton <ktilton@...>
Date: 2002-03-08T11:19:20+09:00
Subject: newbie Q: managing a multi-file Ruby project, win32

I am interested in porting a neat little constraints contrib from Lisp
to Ruby. It consists of about thirty field in three directories, two of
which would be modules in Ruby (they are packages in Lisp).

I download a Ruby for Win package and after some puzzlement have hit
upon this way of working:

  Edit .rb files in SciTE or RubyWin
  Load and test in a RubyWin IRB window

Question 1: Is that the right way to go? I could not make out how to run
Ruby from SciTE, though I saw tempting menu items to that effect.

Question 2: So how would I manage a multi-file project? Do I...

.... have one .rb that loads the others? Then after changing/saving
source I go back to the IRB window of RubyWin, re-load that source, then
run again?

That is not the end of the world, I am just hoping for some mechanism
that would automate the re-load of changed source, ie by identifying
which had changed and re-loading those.

Any other ideas on how to live with multi-file projects would be
welcome.

thx

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 kenny tilton
 clinisys, inc
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