requirium

An autoload alternative for Ruby.

• https://github.com/SilverPhoenix99/requirium

gem install requirium

Requirium offers advanced loading mechanisms, similar to Ruby's autoload and require.

autoload calls Ruby's load, while autorequire calls Ruby's require as expected, so they both search for files as Ruby does. But they do more than that, such as loading multiple files for a single constant, and batching multiple constants with a single call.

To use, simply extend the Requirium module and the loading methods will be available:

module M
  extend Requirium

  autoload :A # loads 'a' (camel case constant to snake case file name)
  autoload :B, 'b', 'b1', 'dir/b2' # loads the 3 files
  autoload A: nil, B: ['b', 'b1', 'dir/b2'] # joins the 2 previous options in a single call

  autorequire :A # requires 'a'
  autorequire :B, 'b', 'b1', 'dir/b2' # requires the 3 files
  autorequire A: nil, B: ['b', 'b1', 'dir/b2'] # joins the 2 previous options in a single call
  
  # theses next examples are similar to the previous ones,
  # but they load relative to the current file
  
  autoload_relative :X
  autoload_relative :Y, 'y', 'y1', 'dir/y2'
  autoload_relative X: nil, Y: ['y', 'y1', 'dir/y2']
  
  autorequire_relative :X
  autorequire_relative :Y, 'y', 'y1', 'dir/y2'
  autorequire_relative X: nil, Y: ['y', 'y1', 'dir/y2']
end

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2014 Pedro Pinto

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