From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T01:35:58+09:00
Subject: Re: require in instance_eval

On 10/26/2010 7:54 AM, unexist wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> just wondered about following: http://pastie.org/1249746
> 
> Is this the intended behaviour of require? I am a bit surprised, that it evals the code on object-level
> instead of staying in the scope of my Foobar object.

You can call require from anywhere, be it within a class definition, a
method, or even an eval statement.  In all cases the general expectation
is that require loads the file into the global namespace rather than
into the scope of the calling code.

> Is there a way around this?

Have you tried loading the contents of the file as a string and then
passing the string to eval rather than call require on the file?  I
think that might do what you want.

> Also is it's possible to set the LOAD_PATH to get require_relative in
> instance_eval to work?

What exactly is the error message when you try to use require_relative?

> I know about the path parameter of instance_eval, but apparently it doesn't
> change anything.

Yeah, that is only to supply a file name to be reported as the source
file if there are problems that require a stack trace to be produced.
It's not intended to help you load a file at all.

-Jeremy