From: Wesley J Landaker <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T02:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Joining scripts?

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On Monday 08 December 2003 10:32 am, Qubert wrote:
> I have been working on a couple of Ruby wrappers for some fortran
> programs.  They are running a bit long (300+ lines), however Ruby has
> been excellent in handling them.
>
> My concerns are they are a bit too long to join together in one
> program, but they will often run together.  I want the second script
> to be run independently, but if the first one is run, I want the
> second to be called from within the first.
>
> Is the best way to accomplish this to write a line in the first
> script: `/usr/local/bin/secondscript.rb`

> This doesn't seem to be the Ruby way since it relies on the shell,
> plus I would like to send some global variables across if continued
> from the first script.

Seems like you just want "load":

load '/usr/local/bin/secondscript.rb'

It works like require, but will always evaluate the file, instead of=20
doing so conditionally.

=2D-=20
Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net
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