fyi : rexml eruby cache'ing

[paul vudmaska]

>>Please avoid top-posting.<<

Is this a top-posting? How do i submit a sub
top-posting?

Anyway i submitted a post about rexml perhaps
intermittantly caching a file. I figured out why.

before, i was loading the xml like this...

$global =
REXML::Document.new(File.new('xml/global.xml'))

and not closing file.

now, instead, i do this
$globalFile = File.new('xml/global.xml')
$global = REXML::Document.new($globalFile)
....
$globalFile.close

and close $globalFile at the end.

Anyway, alls groovy now.

THanks,:P




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[Austin Ziegler]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:55:19 +0900, paul vudmaska wrote:

> now, instead, i do this
> $globalFile = File.new('xml/global.xml')
> $global = REXML::Document.new($globalFile)
> $globalFile.close

There are two Ruby idioms that you may prefer to this.

1. File.open with a block:

globalXML = nil
File.open("xml/global.xml") do |f|
globalXML = REXML::Document.new(f)
end

This implicitly closes the file at the end of the block.

2. File.read:

globalXML = REXML::Document.new(File.read("xml/global.xml"))

-austin
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[paul vudmaska]

>>

There are two Ruby idioms that you may prefer to this.

1. File.open with a block:

globalXML = nil
File.open("xml/global.xml") do |f|
globalXML = REXML::Document.new(f)
end

This implicitly closes the file at the end of the
block.

2. File.read:

globalXML =
REXML::Document.new(File.read("xml/global.xml"))
<<

Thanks for the tips! File.read, this will be ideal for
me!



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