I'm about three weeks into Ruby coming from C++ and Java and enjoying
it so far. I've spent a lot of time reading "The Ruby Way" 2nd ed from
about cover to cover but the old brain is still very much in the
beginner's stage of understanding some of subtleties

The problem I'm trying to solve is that I am writing a rather large
application that consists of about 8 packages each with their own set
of Ruby classes. It kind of looks like this:

Project

    Common
        -Main.rb
        -Designator.rb
    Interpreter
        -DomainInterpreter.rb
...(more packages with more classes/modules)

In most instances I have to require one or more item from the same (or
other) package for each given class to do its job. However, in some
cases a class requires an entire package. While it isn't a problem to
require each one individually, it is a bit of a nuisance. In java you
can do 'import java.io.*' and import a whole set of items at once.

The question I have is, "Is there a way to require multiple items from
the same package in one line of code in Ruby 1.8.6?"

Thanks in advance for the time and help!