From: Chad Fowler Date: 2005-04-18T00:40:42+09:00 Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby? On 4/17/05, Navindra Umanee wrote: > David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > Of course, when RubyGems is included in 1.8.3 (hopefully or, pain, > > pain, 1.8.4), I think that's when RubyGems will make its mark for > > increasing the first-time visit of libraries on newbies coming to Ruby. > > Oh no, RubyGems is going to be included by default in Ruby? :( > > No offense, but I would really hate to *have* to use those stupid > looking RubyGem requires to use Ruby libraries... > You miss the point: if RubyGems were included in Ruby's default distribution, it would be integrated, and you'd never have to use require_gem again (though, you could still use require_gem to load a specific version of a library). -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 100,000 gems served!)