From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-05-30T15:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems HackFest Weekend #1 is complete!

On 5/29/05, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/05, Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> > > http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2005/05/rubygems_hackfe.html
> >
> > Great work!
> >
> > > % time ruby -rprofile -rrubygems -e 'require_gem "RubyInline"' 2>&1 |
> >
> > So no-one managed to get rid of the require_gem stuff yet?  :-)
> 
> I made something.. not sure if it still works?
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=439&group_id=126&atid=577

Current versions of RubyGems alter Kernel#require to do exactly that.
RUBYOPT=rubygems in your shellrc will autorequire rubygems for you.

cheers,
Mark