autoload?

[neobuddah]

Hi all

Does Ruby have anything similar to PHP's autoload()?

[MiiJaySung]

Out of interest, why is this such an important feature?

[neobuddah]

Its not overly important, its just a really nice feature. Good for MVC frameworks when you don't want to have to include lots of files and have your classes load when you instantiate them.

[MiiJaySung]

Well if you use rails, if you stick to the Rails way of doing stuff you don't need to use require really

[stereofrog]

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_...ernel.autoload