I'm writing a Ruby gem with lots of nested classes and such. I'd like to keep a huge list of require
statements out of my main Ruby file in the /lib
directory, so instead I used the following:
Dir[ File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), "**", "*.rb" ) ].each {|f| require f}
which totally worked fine until this morning when I added a new file (helper module) and now the library is acting like that file isn't loaded, even though it is. I checked with
puts "loaded" if defined?(RealtimeArgHelpers)
I also duplicated the require statement to check to see if my new file is getting returned
Dir[ File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), "**", "*.rb" ) ].each {|f| puts f}
and it is. I have to manually require this one file. Out of nowhere. I have 101 other files currently being gathered by this statement and everything works perfectly fine. But not this one file. I don't have any name conflicts besides
/path/arg_helpers.rb
/path/realtime/agents.rb
/path/realtime/queues.rb
/path/realtime.rb
/path/realtime_arg_helpers.rb
which still shouldn't be a 'conflict.' I'm completely baffled by the seemingly random behavior, unless I'm doing something illegal in the language. I tried renaming the module, renaming the file, no dice. Why is this one file not getting loaded?