From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T00:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Issue


Patrick Fernie said:
> Ah, this makes sense. Will the patched require eventually load by the
> gem library name?

Is the question: Will you eventually be able to specify the gem name in a
require statement?   The answer is no.

'require' should always work with files.

Here's some guidlelines:

* Always use a plain 'require' in your code.

* Use 'require_gem' only in code that needs to specify a specific version
of a gem to be used.

* When you do use a 'require_gem', collect the require_gem statements in a
contained area of your code base so that when you need to change what
versions are required, it will be easy to do so.

-- 
-- Jim Weirich     jim@weirichhouse.org    http://onestepback.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)