I thought I'd be a good samaritan and implement require_relative in
IronRuby, but I'm having real trouble figuring out what the current file's
path actually is.
The closest I've got is something like this:
* Pull apart the the caller/backtrace to get the file name
* File.expand_path(file, File.dirname(dir))
* require that file
This is equivalent to the existing ruby idiom of "require
File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib/file1')", but this doesn't work
reliably because __FILE__ is already relative, so File.dirname(__FILE__)
often just returns "."
Without the full path to the current file however, this is as good as we
can get.
I've looked through various parts of the IronRuby source code...
- as far as I can tell the Parser/Syntax tree code (which has access to
the file path) doesn't keep the information around
- and even if it did, I'm not sure how regular ruby code could access the
parser/AST??
If anyone could help at all, even with a small bit of detail, it'd be much
appreciated.
Thanks, Orion
PS:
Here's my test program, which works correctly in MRI 1.92, but I cannot
get it to work in IronRuby
require_relative 'lib/file1'
Dir.chdir 'c:/windows/system32'
require_relative 'lib/file2'
Other things I tried
- eval("__FILE__") - is hard-coded to return "(eval)"
- I thought about poking around in RubyContext.Loader.LoadedFiles, but the
Loader doesn't know about the entry-point file (is this a bug??), which is
a big stumbling block
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