How to access the base namespace in Ruby?

Question

I\'m writing code in a namespace where the File module exists (inside another module)

And I need to access the ruby File class.

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Answer 1

::File

Prefixing with :: accesses the 'root' of the namespace tree.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you're asking, but if you are inside of module Foo and you reference class Bar, then ruby will look for Foo::Bar. To look just for Bar, you should reference ::Bar (of course, this Bar should be defined in "global" scope, outside of Foo).