From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T10:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

In article <471CAFE0.2070104@sarion.co.jp>,
  "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp> writes:

> My opinion on the basis that enabling rubygems by default is, allow to
> load gemspecs for creating feature manifest.  It's better than
> 'wild-guessing-and-load-rubygems-then-pray-it's-included' for me.  Oh
> man, I must not be able to express my mind correctly in English.

I'm not sure what you want.  However you can use any
RubyGems feature using require 'rubygems'.

> RubyGems offers versions control unlike this kind of static version
> dependency solving by administrator.  It offers dynamic version
> dependency solving at runtime.  Say rails-1.2.3 and rails-1.2.5 are
> installed on a system.  There also be activerecord-1.15.3 and 1.15.5.
> One Rails application runs with rails-1.2.3 + AR-1.15.3 and another
> application runs with rails-1.2.5 + AR-1.15.5.  Even granting that we
> don't offer gem method by default, rubygems loads feature in a different
> manner.  I think you might not like this behavior.

I think I like it.
-- 
Tanaka Akira