From: Martijn Hoogendoorn <m.hoogendoorn@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T07:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems package manager

Op woensdag 26 januari 2005 23:12, schreef Jeffrey Moss:
> If you have to use require_gem to load your library, it aught to have a
> config option to download the most recent version automatically as your
> script is executing. That would make it 10x more useful to me.
Most programs are not run with sufficient priviliges to write in the 
system-wide Ruby directory. Perhaps if you could install gems per user, 
without the need to install Ruby in your home directory.

> There should also be a config option to create symbolic links (or
> shortcuts) to the most recently installed packages in the site_ruby
> directory when you install a gem, so that you can skip the require_gem and
> instead just require directly from site_ruby.
As of RubyGems 0.7.0 by default a stub is installed, so you can just use:

require 'somelib'

instead of:

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'somelib'

However, only when using require_gem can you request a specific version, as 
in:

require_gem 'somelib', '>= 0.1.0'

met vriendelijke groet,
 Martijn Hoogendoorn.