Menu, require and .rb files

bizello

Hi guys,

I've read some posts about require and rb files.
So, I would like to know if is possible you have a menu that each sub item call a script or function inside differents .rb files? How to do this?
I have a main scritp and inside it there are a lot of function that can become smaller functions in separate files used by mora than one script.
Example: I have two rb files: file1.rb and file2.rb.
File1.rb do an action that use a function from file2.rb . But file2.rb can work alone too. So, I want to create a menu with two subitem to choose file1.rb or file2.rb.
This would be amazing! I could separate my functions and use them in several othes scripts, without copy the code lines.
Thanks

TIG

If you set up each script as a module or a class you can call different aspects of the various methods it contains...
You can pass arguments like MYtool.new(1) or Mytool.new(2) and in the class's def initialize(opt=1) method of Mytool class you have a 'case' test 'opt 1' do this method and 'opt 2' do this other method etc...
With a module you'll end up with something like the Geom module and you would use it like that - Geom.Point2d.new(...) or Geom.Transformation.scaling(...) etc etc...

Cleverbeans

Thankfully Ruby makes this simple, just wrap it all up in a module and you can split it over multiple files. For example...

File 1


module MyModule
    def foo(x)
        puts(x)
    end
end

File 2


module MyModule
    def bar()
         foo("Hello World!")
    end
end

and by Ruby magik the call to bar works since it's in the same namespace.

Dan Rathbun

We have topic for discussing Ruby Modules:
[talk] Using Ruby Modules

and an informational topic:
[info] Using Ruby Modules

bizello

Thanks guys,
I'll try Ruby modules
SérgioBizello