Require file without executing code?

Question

Here I have two files:

file.rb

def method
  puts \"This won\'t be outputted.\"
end

puts \"This will be outputted.\"

main.rb

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Answer 1

I don't think modifying file is good idea - there are could be a lot of files like this one or these files belong to customer and a ton of another reasons.

Ruby is good at metaprogramming so why don't use this feature?

It could be like this.

Create file with fake module and put here the file.

File.open("mfile.rb","w") do |f|
  f.write "module FakeModule
"
  f.write File.open("file.rb").read
  f.write "
end"
end

Then load this file:

require "/.mfile.rb

and accessing to the method:

FakeModule::method