From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T09:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: gem and stubs

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> > Library stubs have been unsupported for ages.  In fact, when you
> > install RubyGems, it looks for any existing library stubs and removes
> > them :)
>
> yup.  you are quite right.  i missed that.  they really should be there as an
> option though.  otherwise this doesn't work
>
>    irb -r postgres  # postgres stub is installed

Yes, that's the benefit, but it's a shallow convenience, at the cost of
spewing crap in the filesystem.

Why not:

  alias irb="irb -r rubygems"

?

Or a special alias for a postgres-enabled irb if that's something you
use often.

Gavin