Logan Capaldo
8/20/2006 2:22:00 PM
On Aug 20, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I'm new to Ruby and this group. I was hoping that someone could
> lend a helping hand involving the irb interpreter packaged with
> ruby version 1.8 on Mac OSX. I would like to import or load some
> classes that are defined in a separate .rb file on my hard disk
> into an interactive session of irb. I tried invoking the load()
> function with '~/classes.rb' as a parameter. The interpreter gave
> me a 'true' value in response. But when I tried to create an
> instance of one of the classes defined in the file I got a
> undefined class error from irb. I also tried using the require
> keyword with the same path in quotes to load that class file and it
> produced the same results.
>
This should have worked. Can we see your code?
> So, can anyone tell me how to import those class definition ruby
> files into the irb interpreter or at least point me in the right
> direction on where to find documentation online for the irb
> interpreter itself?
>
> I appreciate everyone's help in advance.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> --Nick
>
> "Our characters are the result of our conduct." -- Aristotle
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