From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-02-19T23:44:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Sourcing files

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Bj�rn Lindstr�m wrote:

> Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> [20030219 07:32]:
> > load "file"
> >
> > ?
>
> OK, say that config.rb is a file containing the line:
> x = 23
>
> and in my script I do:
>
> load './config.rb'
> puts x
>
> this is what I get:
>
> ./script.rb:3: undefined local variable or method `x' for #<Object:0x401d1ce0> (NameError)
>
Well, what about:

File.open("./config.rb") {|f| eval f.read}
puts x

?

/Robert Feldt