From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-01-04T06:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Require a ruby project to automatically include the modules in classes defined in the same .rb file

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Marc Heiler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I would like to know how I could save one line of code.

> However, what I now want to do is, use only require,
> and have this module included into ALL classes of
> the .rb file. In other words:

> Is this possible?

Is it desirable?  Wouldn't the code be significantly harder to read?

> The reason why I need this, before anyone asks:
>
> I have a global colourizer method, which I use
> for ALL my ruby projects and all my ruby classes,
> but optionally. I.e. I want to toggle and control
> whether to use ansicolours or not.

What does that mean?  I mean what does this have to do with the module
or the method?

> The current code I have requires me to use an
> explicit include, which is ok, but I'd rather
> be able to eliminate one line of code, which
> would in turn eliminate around 3000 lines of
> code (the amount of classes I wrote in ruby so
> far).

If that method is so globally used you could include it in Object.

Kind regards

robert

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