From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-19T15:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Business Objects

Most libraries I've seen have a top level "load-it-all" file and sub-files for
independently useful modules. Something like the following:

files in lib
project.rb
project/inventory.rb
project/orders.rb


project.rb might contain:

# load all project files
require 'project/inventory' 
require 'project/orders'  


Individual utilities or tools, might just include only the modules they work with:
require 'project/inventory' # just loads the inventory module of the project

inv = Project::Inventory.new 


Usually the top level 'container' is a module, but you can dynamically add
to the module. For instance project/inventory.rb might have:

module Project
  class Inventory
  end
end

and orders.rb

module Project
  class Orders
  end
end

-- 
Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
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