Is there any major difference between load and require in the Ruby on Rails applications? Or do they both have the same functionality?
Is there any major difference between load and require in the Ruby on Rails
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Is there any major difference between load and require in the Ruby on Rails applications? Or do they both have the same functionality?
requiresearches for the library in all the defined search paths and also appends.rb or .so to the file name you enter. It also makes sure that a library is only
included once. So if your application requires library A and B and library B requries library A too A would be loaded only once.
With
loadyou need to add the full name of the library and it gets loaded every time youcall
load– even if it already is in memory.