From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-14T03:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:18 , Chris Carter wrote:
> How about something as simple as a 'gem' method defined in Kernel by
> default, that will require rubygems and then the gem (this may require
> making the gem method load files again).  This gives us the benefit of
> rubygems being "transparent"  and not taking a huge performance hit if
> it isn't going to be used.

I think the goal is to make Kernel#require do what you mean when your  
require 'somefile', whether it is in stdlib, sitelib, a gem, -I or  
RUBYLIB.  If you have to call a different method, it isn't doing what  
you mean.

Compared to previous RubyGems, I don't feel there is a huge  
performance hit.  The core team may think differently, though.

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