From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-29T11:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: require_gem question

On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Andrew Gibson wrote:

> Does require_gem also load all of the listed dependencies in the gem
> spec or are those dependencies loaded by manually through require
> statements?
>
> so example:
> require_gem 'rails'
>
> the rails gem has:
>   actionwebservice
>   actionmailer
>   actionpack
>   activerecord
>   activesupport
>   rake

require_gem is only useful for picking a particular version of a  
gem.  If you don't manually specify the version of the dependent gems  
(in dependency order) you'll get whatever their gemspecs need.

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