Question

I have a 2 scripts:

test1.rb

require 'test2.rb'
puts "hello"

test2.rb

puts "test"

I’m running this by executing ruby test2.rb test1.rb.

But only test is printed out and not hello.

Answer 1

You only need to run ruby test1.rb and the require statement should pull in test2.rb for you – you don’t need to put it on the command line as well. (That will try and run test2.rb, passing the string ‘test1.rb’ as an argument, which is not what you want here)

Edit: the require statement does not look in the current directory by default when trying to find ‘test2.rb’. You can explicitly specify it by changing it to:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test2.rb'