On Dec 1, 4:59 pm, Will Mueller <will.lil... / gmail.com> wrote: > First of all, what do you mean by "top post"? Do you mean reply on an > email such as this? Yes. > And what I mean by "bring up" is simply like the method defined below. > If I would have typed the code I used below, I would be able to see > the text "Test" if I typed "w." > > With Thanks, > Will What Robert is asking is why you don't just use ruby's built-in feature for including files and store your many ruby files on the file system. For example, with a directory like this... foo | `- main.rb | `- bar.rb | `- baz.rb ...now from main.rb you can just say 'require "bar"' and everything in bar.rb gets included in main.rb. What is it about this that is not sufficient, that a database would solve? Regards, Jordan