reference ruby class without module name

Question

Is there a way in ruby to load a module containing many classes and be able to access these classes without prefixing them with the module name? Consider foo.rb and bar.rb:

foo.rb:

require 'bar'
bar = BarModule::Bar.new()

bar.rb

module BarModule
  class Bar
  end
end

Basically I'd like the ability, from foo.rb, to refer to the class "Bar" without specifying its module every time I reference it. In java terms, I'm looking for something akin to:

import BarModule.*;

Anything like that exist?

Answer 1

Modules can be mixed in to one another. To use BarModule as a mixin, you want to include BarModule.