From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T16:14:22+09:00
Subject: newbie question

Hello,

	Sorry, it's probably a very basic question, but I can't find the answer on 
the net...

	I want to load other ruby files as "plugins" from my program. I thought using 
"require" to load the file, eg:

Dir.open('myplugins').each { |plugin|
        next if plugin == '.' || plugin == '..'
        puts "now treating plugin #{plugin}"
        require 'myplugins/' + plugin
        # instanciate our class :
#       eval('pluginObject =' + plugin + '.new')
}

	But it fails, apparently because the parameter for require must be CONSTANT:

test.rb:4:in `require': ./myplugins/poptv.rb:1: class/module name must be 
CONSTANT (SyntaxError)
        from test.rb:4
        from test.rb:1:in `each'
        from test.rb:1

require ('myplugins/' + plugin).freeze does the same.

any idea? shoud I use something else than 'require'? some form of eval?

thank you,

emmanuel
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