From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T16:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

Hi,

At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:30:08 +0900,
Eric Hodel wrote in [ruby-core:11783]:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 01:26, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> > 4. What $LOAD_PATH order should be?
> >   4-1. by default?
> >     [RUBYLIBDIR, SITEDIR]
> >   4-2. after requiring rubygems?
> >     [GEMs, RUBYLIBDIR, SITEDIR] or
> >     [RUBYLIBDIR, GEMs, SITEDIR] or
> >     [RUBYLIBDIR, SITEDIR, GEMs]
> 
> Right now gems come before SITEDIR and after RUBYLIBDIR, and this  
> seems to work well.
> 
> Nothing should come before RUBYLIBDIR because it prevents -I from  
> working for developers.

You are confused.  SITEDIR comes before RUBYLIBDIR.

$ ruby19 -v -e 'p $:'
ruby 1.9.0 (2007-07-20 revision 12823) [i686-linux]
["/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9",
 "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/i686-linux",
 "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby",
 "/usr/lib/ruby/1.9",
 "/usr/lib/ruby/1.9/i686-linux",
 "."]

-- 
Nobu Nakada