From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-05-08T20:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: require variants

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:38:58PM +0900, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> 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...

Handling these would be nontrivial.  I think a better solution is to
write (or generate) a script with the same name as the directory; the
script can recurse through the directory itself or require individual
files, as the author sees fit.

> 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

I agree.  I use something like this in ALL my Ruby code, and I would
very much like it I could distribute code that depends on something like
this, without having to duplicate it in each of my projects.

See:

  [ruby-talk:21406]

And:

  http://rm-f.net/~cout/ruby/treasures/RubyTreasures-0.4/lib/hacks/loaders.rb.html

for a more complete version.

Paul