From: tsuraan <tsuraan@...>
Date: 2010-12-17T02:50:58+09:00
Subject: Effects of require

I've been using python a lot lately, so I'll start with how that
works.  In python, when you're dynamically loading code, you do
something like

module = __import__(mod_name_as_string, ...)

and then you have a module object that you can call methods on, etc.
In ruby, if I understand correctly, you can do

require some_string

and it parses that file and puts stuff into the global namespace.  Is
there a sane way to determine exactly what was changed by that
require?  Suppose I have a directory layout like this:

root/<mods>/plugin/<plugin_names>/plugin.rb

and I want to load all the plugin.rb files, I can use
Dir["root/*/plugin/#{name}/plugin.rb"] and then use require_relative
on the resulting list of strings, but how do I know what modules are
being defined in those plugin.rb files?