Polyglot version 0.1.0 has been released! * <http://polyglot.rubyforge.org> Allows custom language loaders for specified file extensions to be hooked into require. For anyone who's ever needed to load non-Ruby file types, especially to implement a fully-custom DSL (as opposed to a Ruby DSL), this gem allows you to simply require the file-type handler, then require your file. The file-type handler is a loader for files identified by your special filename extension. It registers itself with polyglot, which aliases Kernel.require. When you then require "myfile", polyglot will first attempt a normal Ruby 'require', and if that fails, will search the Ruby load path for a filename matching any of the registered extensions, and call the loader for that extension. As an example, I'm building a query language called CQL. *.cql files can be loaded by a parser which creates Ruby classes. All I have to do is: require "cql" require "myqueries" and the CQL loader will load "myqueries.cql". You might need to wait a few hours for the gem to populate into the mirrors. Clifford Heath.