eval a file

[Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney]

Basically, I was wondering if it is possible in Ruby to eval a file
without loading the whole thing in memory. I'm trying to avoid
eval(File.new(location).read), but at the same time, I don't want the
file to contain a named method that could conflict with other named
methods.

-Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

Basically, I was wondering if it is possible in Ruby to eval a file
without loading the whole thing in memory. I'm trying to avoid
eval(File.new(location).read), but at the same time, I don't want the
file to contain a named method that could conflict with other named
methods.

Can't help with the first part (it may not be possible, AFAIK). But the
second part is easy. Two approaches are:

http://redshift.sourceforge.net/script/
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dynaload/

 

[Jeremy McAnally]

Probably not the best solution, but you could load the code into an
instance of a class. For example, in a file 'test.rb':

def my_method
puts "this is my method"
end

Then in your main file (this is in irb, so you'll need to remove some stuff)...
this is my method
=> nil

--Jeremy

Basically, I was wondering if it is possible in Ruby to eval a file
without loading the whole thing in memory. I'm trying to avoid
eval(File.new(location).read), but at the same time, I don't want the
file to contain a named method that could conflict with other named
methods.

-Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney

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