From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-19T11:08:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusion about gems and non-gems working together.

On Saturday 18 June 2005 04:10 pm, Chad Fowler wrote:
> > In all the cases where I had these problems, I had non-gem installs of
> > earlier versions of the packages.  In many cases, it seems like code
> > inside of files associated with these earlier versions would get
> > executed instead of the code that the newer gem would use.
> > [...]
> > Has anyone else experienced anything like this?  If so, how did you
> > handle it?
>
> I haven't, but I don't use non-gem libs much anymore.  [...]
> As long as the gem version of the library
> is before the non-gem version in the load path (which it should be), you
> should get the gem version of the lib.  

If no explicit require_gem is done on the library, then the non-gem version 
will take precedence.  If there is no non-gem version, or an explicit 
require_gem has requested the library, then the gem version will be used.

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