Overnight wrote: > In article <200209190402.g8J42Ov16830 / sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp>, > nobu.nokada / softhome.net says... > > >>>Do they exist? I'm afraid they don't, or at least I couldnt' find any >>>hint in "Programming Ruby" and in ruby-talk. Hope I'm wrong... >> >>None. >>You can set -r option in RUBYOPT environment variable, > > > Thanks. Wouldn't it be useful to have some special-name, autoloading > script? It would be the necessary starting point in defining a standard > for what happens at Ruby's startup time. What would the standard be for how installed ruby libraries insert code into this file? Why not just use BEGIN {} in the library code?