Question

Does anyone know enough about Ruby’s require to tell me if the following is valid syntax:

class Something

  def initialize(mode)
     case mode
     when :one then require 'some_gem'
     when :two then require 'other_gem'
     end
  end

end

s = Something.new

If so, will the require place the gem into the global namespace as it would when at the top of the file?

Answer 1

If so, would the require place the gem
into the global namespace as the same
require at the top of the file would?

Yes. require doesn’t have scope, while load does.