From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-25T02:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems thoughts

On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:18, Hans Fugal wrote:
> Jim Weirich wrote:
> > A two-part response to your question...
> >
> > (1) Gems can be installed with a "stub" in the standard library location.
> > This stub requires rubygems, then requires your package with the proper
> > version, providing a transparent access layer for gems.  Stubs are now
> > installed by default (controlled by an option on the gem command line).
>
> Ok, that seems like a great solution. Guess not all the docs have been
> updated to reflect that on the wiki.

I didn't realize this either.  Someone ought to write a definitive tutorial on 
Gems and maintain it with each release.  The examples I found left a lot of 
things unexplained and it was a painful session of trial-and-error to get my 
gems working properly, and even then, I didn't know there was a way to bypass 
the "require_gem" statement.

If any more work is done on Gems, I strongly recommend it be on good 
documentation, and then maintain those docs to update it for the changes made 
in the future.

	Sean O'Dell