From: shasckaw <shasckaw@...>
Date: 2004-03-10T23:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: require is excluding too much

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> Is this a bug?
> Shouldn't 'require' load both modules in this case?
> If not, what is the motivation for doing so?
> 
> Just curious :-)
> 
> --
> Simon Strandgaard
[snip]
> require 'mod'
> $:.unshift('dir')
> require 'mod'
> server> ruby a.rb
> hello1
> server> ls 
> a.rb    dir/    mod.rb
> server>
> 
> I would have expected it to output both 'hello1' and 'hello2'.

Hello Simon!

When requiring a module twice, it is probable that ruby just use its 
name to check if it has to reload it or not, forgetting to also check if 
it is in a different directory or not.

You can do this instead:
require 'mod'
require 'dir/mod'

Lio