From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-08-14T00:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygem libs vs Non Rubygem libs

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:

>> Some might have the lib installed from gems and some might have installed
>> manually or whatever ... so how do you reconcile the two if you must require
>> rubygems to use gem installed libs? Why is the gems directory not added to
>> the regular include path? Are you required to write code to deal with this?
>> How do experienced Ruby devs deal with this issue? Or am I just thick and it
>> isn't an issue at all?
>>
>> any insight appreciated,
>
> export RUBYOPT=rubygems

Of course, this isn't such a great solution from inside a library, 
However, it's not too hard.

begin
   require 'rubygems'
rescue LoadError
end