From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-06-14T11:40:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Gemspec option to prevent auto-require?

On Jun 13, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> On 6/13/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
>> So I don't believe rubygems is at fault here.
>
> I decided to make a simple example gem to illustrate this.  Here is
> the Rakefile with simple spec
>
> require "rake/rdoctask"
> require "rake/testtask"
> require "rake/gempackagetask"
> require "rubygems"
>
> spec = Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
>  spec.name = "dummie"
>  spec.version = "0.0.1"
>  spec.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
>  spec.summary = "A dummy lib"
>  spec.require_path = "lib"
>  spec.files = "lib/dumb.rb"
>  spec.add_dependency('ruport', '>= 0.1.0')

What happens if you remove this line?

> end
>
> Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
>  pkg.need_zip = true
>  pkg.need_tar = true
> end
>
> lib/dumb.rb actually is just an empty file.  There are no requires.
> If you unpack the gem once installing it, you can see this.
>
> Now take a look at this.
>
> [sandal@harmonix ~]$ irb -rubygems --simple-prompt
>>> require "dumb"
> => true
>>> $LOADED_FEATURES.include? "faster_csv.rb"
> => true
>
> Any reason why this should happen?
>
> Because this sounds like a bug, here is some system info.

Do you have the RUBYOPT shell variable set?  Do you have  
a .gemrc?  .irbrc?

> [sandal@harmonix ~]$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
> [sandal@harmonix ~]$ gem -v
> 0.8.11
> [sandal@harmonix ~]$ rake --version
> rake, version 0.7.1
> [sandal@harmonix ~]$ uname -a
> Linux harmonix 2.6.16-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 31 06:41:53 UTC 2006
> i686 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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