From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2012-03-08T01:46:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:43122] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6124][Open] What is the purpose of "fake" gems in Ruby


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On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:50:51PM +0900, Vit Ondruch wrote:
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> Issue #6124 has been reported by Vit Ondruch.
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> Bug #6124: What is the purpose of "fake" gems in Ruby
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6124
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> Author: Vit Ondruch
> Status: Open
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: Eric Hodel
> Category:=20
> Target version:=20
> ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [x86_64-linux]
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> As I tried to point out in #6123, the "fake" gems which are distributed w=
ith Ruby breaks user's expectations. The following example should fail:
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> $ ruby --disable-gems -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
> true
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> However, it is not failing. Could you please enlighten me what is the pur=
pose of fake gem then? Even if you install updated BigDecimal from rubygems=
=2Eorg, the bundled version will won unless you use "gem 'bidgecimal'" some=
where in the code. This makes no sense.
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> Don't take me wrong, I am big fan of gemified stdlib #5481, however this =
is not the way how it should be done.

I think this works because stdlib load path is searched regardless of
gem activation or not.  These gems are real, they're just installed in a
special location.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing, but it does maintain backwards
compatibility.

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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