From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T00:41:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems undermine unit testing


Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> The current version of RubyGems library (0.8.10) doesn't alter the
> LOADPATH. Instead it overrides Kernel#require with something like this:
>
> module Kernel
>   alias require__ require
>
>   def require(path)
>     require__ path
>   rescue LoadError => load_error
>     ... tries to require a gem ...
>   end
> end
>
> So, it will always try to get stuff from LOADPATH first, only then go to
> RubyGems.

This is true, but as Austin pointed out to me the other day, if there
is a match in Gems it will alter the LOAD_PATH so as not to have to
search again.

T.