From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T20:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Refining the use of file joins or file expand_path

On 02/05/2010 01:44 AM, Albert Schlef wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Turning back to your original example: it looks like what you really
>> want is to do "require 'ui'"
> 
> I don't think it's safe to do "require 'ui'". Some other library may a 
> have a file by the same name and Ruby may load it instead of ours.
> 
> So one should do "require 'mylibrary/ui'" instead.

That was based on the example given and under the assumption that the 
library's name is "ui".  In that case you would use reqire 'ui'.

Cheers

	robert

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