From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T05:36:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require...

Hi Chad,

I have a library that allows one to require individual methods by name.
Unfortuantely some file systems have punctuation limitations on file
names, so I need to "escape" the names and then override Kernel#require
to take that into account. I did it the tradiional way using alias, but
for that caused conflicts with RubyGems, which does the same thing. In
figuring out what to do about it I hit on the above solution.

I simply thought you might like to know about this, since it seems to
be a more robust solution. Also, I just wanted to be sure I didn't
overlook something, i.e. if anyone else sees a problem this way of
doing it.

Thanks,
T.