From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T08:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA, gems, and RubyForge (was Re: User Account Setup - Multiple OS's)

On 5/23/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3. With the current RubyGems 0.8.11, should we do
> >
> > require 'rubygems'
> > require_gem 'foo'
> >
> > or
> >
> > require 'rubygems'
> > require 'foo'
>
> Never use require_gem unless you need to fix a gem version.
> Avoid using it anyway, if you can.

Hmm.  I seem to remember needing to use require_gem
in some situation.  I started with require rubygems + require
the_gem_I_needed, because I was copying those lines
from some other example.  But that didn't work until I
changed the second "require" to "require_gem"...

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