From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T13:36:00+09:00
Subject: Re: fyi : rexml eruby cache'ing

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:55:19 +0900, paul vudmaska wrote:
> now, instead, i do this
> $globalFile = File.new('xml/global.xml')
> $global      = REXML::Document.new($globalFile)
> $globalFile.close

There are two Ruby idioms that you may prefer to this.

1. File.open with a block:

globalXML = nil
File.open("xml/global.xml") do |f|
  globalXML = REXML::Document.new(f)
end

This implicitly closes the file at the end of the block.

2. File.read:

globalXML = REXML::Document.new(File.read("xml/global.xml"))

-austin
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