From: Usman Hussain <usmanhhussain@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T01:00:29+09:00
Subject: Re: How to stop a file from being required

On Mar 3, 1:42 pm, Steve Klabnik <st...@steveklabnik.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> The only place this gets tricky is if you load a file from two different
> paths. So, a test_helper.rb for example
>
> $ ls
> test_helper.rb
> some_test.rb
> foo
> |
>  `foo_test.rb
>
> In some_test:
>
> require 'test_helper'
>
> in foo_test
>
> require '../test_helper'
>
> Now it'll load the test_helper twice, because those two strings are
> different. The solution:
>
> require "File.expand_path(test_helper)"

the problem is... we do not know where the file is first getting
loaded... so if we can unrequire a file that would be great. is that
even possible though?

Many thanks for your help. they have been real helpful.

Kind regards,
Usman Hussain