From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T03:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

On 5/6/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > indicating no "features" have been loaded. On windows, Ruby 1.8.4 and
> > the 1-click installer, I get 25 files, including a lot from rubygems,
> > forwardable.rb, time.rb, parsedate.rb, format.rb, rational.rb, openssl.rb,
> > and fcntl.rb. Where did all that come from? How did those files get loaded?
>
> hmm, I remember asking for ruby gems to be enabled when I installed. I
> suppose it's possible that ruby gems pulled in all 25 of those files?

It's very possible. I know from experience with other questions on
this list that requiring rubygems (e.g. the -rubygems switch on the
command line) will pull in rational.rb through a lengthy dependency
chain. I wouldn't be surprised if those other libraries are all pulled
in by rubygems (several of them indirectly, same as rational.rb).

Jacob Fugal