From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-05-08T18:38:58+09:00
Subject: require variants


Regarding the recent dicussion of having require "dir" recursively require
all *.rb's in dir:

As transami pointed out, this would enable the the user to easily organize
disorganized libraries whose authors have just assumed that they reside in
the load path.

Just drop the recursion to enable libraries to have private files:

def require_lib( lib )
  $:.each do |dir|
    path =  "#{dir}/#{lib}"
    Dir["#{path}/*.rb"].each { |f| require f } if File.directory?( path )
  end
end
alias :require_dir :require_lib

Just typed it up without testing so there's bound to be a bug there ;)
and it doesn't handle *.so's *.o's *.dll's and what you's...

But the idea is there.

And as a companion tool it would be nice to be able to know that you are
getting a file from the same directory as opposed to somewhere in path:

def require_local( file )
  local = caller.last.split(":").first
  dir = File.dirname( File.expand_path(local) )
  require "#{dir}/#{file}"
end

Also untested.

What do you think?

 -- Nikodemus