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Fellow Rubyists! How many times have you thought to yourself: “If only there was a more elegant way to download and execute code from all over the internets!” Well, urirequire is the lib for you. By hijacking Kernel.require, urirequire makes it a snap to include code from anywhere on the World Wide Whatever. Sure, eval’ing code that you don’t own might be dangerous; for all you know, that remote Ruby file could be undefining Class or emailing your ex-girlfriends. But I say it’s time to get with the bleeding edge! Control of your own code is so February 2005.

Example 1: The absurdly risky ‘Hello World’

require 'urirequire'
require 'http://fhwang.net/urirequire_test'

Run this, if you feel lucky. Do ya, punk?

Example 2: Install Hobix in seven less keystrokes

ruby -rurirequire -e "require 'http://go.hobix.com/'"

This installs Hobix, that fantabulous blahhg engine by your friend and mine, why the lucky stiff. Sure, it looks like there’s a lot of code at that URI, but if you can’t trust _why, who can you trust? I mean, you trust your mom, and she couldn’t draw a cartoon fox if her life depended on it.

Taglines which will probably make nobody download my lib but I think are funny anyway

urirequire: The network Pwns the computer!

urirequire: Now I’ll never get that job working for Bruce Schneier.

urirequire: It’s not just a solution looking for a problem. It’s a solution looking for a victim.