From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T14:53:29+09:00
Subject: Re: gem question

On Saturday 29 January 2005 07:59 pm, itsme213 wrote:
> > Does the following do what you want?
> >
> >   require 'rubygems'
> >   require 'extensions/kernel'
>
> Yes it does. Does this work different from require_gem?

Evidently :)

With rubygems loaded, any require that fails to find a requested file will 
cause rubygems to look for a gem that can provide the file.  The gem 
containing the file is "activated" and the file is loaded.

With require_gem, the gem is explicitly activated and (in addition), any 
autorequire files specified by the gem author are loaded. 

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