From: Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T00:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby?

Chad Fowler wrote:
>
> 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).

I kind of wondered why you added require_gem instead of just overriding 
require like I originally did, but I see that until RubyGems is in the 
default distribution, it is the friendly thing to do.

Also once you get to that point you still wouldn't need require_gem, 
even for the version specification:

alias :__old_require__ :require
def require(name, version = nil)
    if version
       puts "Would call new version of require!"
    else
       puts "Calling old version of require!"
       __old_require__(name)
    end
end

require 'singleton'
require 'foo', '0.5.6'


Ryan Leavengood