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Fully loaded features: Ruby knows the files it has required

I keep stumbling on Ruby globals, there's one that remembers which files have been required
Fully loaded features: Ruby knows the files it has required
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I keep stumbling on Ruby globals, there's one that remembers which files have been required.

If you've ever required a file on irb, you can see that require returns a boolean. If true is returned, the file will be parsed and loaded, otherwise the file has already been loaded and it won't be loaded again.

$LOADED_FEATURES is a global array, each time a file is required, this array is queried – if the filename is present in the array, the file won't be loaded.

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