From: Scott Barron <linguist@...>
Date: 2006-04-16T05:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug: Requiring "breakpoint" causes the entire Rails framework to load.

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On 4/15/06, Florian Gro=DF <florgro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alder Green wrote:
>
> > I'm working with:
> >
> > 1. Ruby 1.8.4 (i386-mswin32)
> > 2. RubyGems 0.8.11
> > 3. Rails 1.1.2 (obtained through RubyGems)
> > 4. ruby-breakpoint (0.5.0)
> >
> > Whenever I require 'breakpoint', the entire Rails framework  gets
> > loaded as well.
> >
> > I tried "gem uninstall rails", and then require 'breakpoint' returned
> > false and didn't load Rails, but worked. I tried
> > uninstalling/reinstalling ruby-breakpoint - didn't help.
> >
> > What should I do?  I want to use breakpoint outside of Rails, but
> > loading the entire Rails environment for that is pretty taxing: nearly
> > 400 files are
> > loaded, which takes several seconds each time.
>
> I'm the author of ruby-breakpoint and not exactly sure what is happening
> there. The gem spec of ruby-breakpoint certainly doesn't include any
> dependencies. I don't see why Rails would get loaded.
>
> One way to work around the problem might be to just copy the breakpoint
> library files directly into your site-lib directory of Ruby.
>
> I'm not sure what is happening there, though. Perhaps the Rails people
> have an idea what might be happening here?
>
> --
> http://flgr.0x42.net/



I'm no gems internals guru but it seems to me that when you require
'rubygems' all of the gems/**/lib directories are added to the path, and th=
e
rails gem has a lib/breakpoint.rb.  When looking at the lib directories of
most other gems, it looks like the rails gem has a fairly dirty lib/.

-Scott

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