From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T01:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: snmp gem


On May 5, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Rohit Mehta wrote:

> Thanks Ara!  Typing "SNMP.methods" in irb seems to give
> me good output now.
>
> Do you know why the docs say
>
> require 'snmp'
>
> Should it instead say
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require_gem 'snmp'
>

If the docs were to change, it should be to the following, not what  
you have above
require 'rubygems'
require 'snmp'

require_gem only invokes #require if the gem as an autorequire  
attribute. The autorequire mechanism is being deprecated though, and  
the name of require_gem will probably change to reduce confusion. You  
should only use require_gem to choose a specific version
e.g.
require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'some_gem', '1.0' # when I require 'some_gem' I want  
version 1.0
require 'some_gem' # actually load the code for 'some_gem'


> One last question. If I installed from a tarball instead of using  
> gem, would
> require 'snmp' work?
>

Probably yes.

> Please forgive my newbyish questions!  I am only an egg! Someday a  
> skilled
> ruby programmer will hatch!  Thanks!
>
> Rohit
>