[I’m just starting with Ruby, but ‘no question is ever too newbie,’ so I trudge onwards…]
Every tutorial and book I see goes from Ruby with the interactive shell to Ruby on Rails. I’m not doing Rails (yet), but I don’t want to use the interactive shell. I have a class file (first_class.rb) and a Main (main.rb). If I run the main.rb, I of course get the uninitialized constant FirstClass. How do I tell ruby about the first_class.rb?
The easiest way is to put them both in the same file.
However you can also use require, e.g.: